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Suma

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Suma has been given to 53 babies in the U.S. since 1977. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1977, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Suma, 2002

1 in 623,000

Suma over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Suma: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Suma means

Suma is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Suma is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 53 girls were recorded with the name Suma between 1977 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1977; its best national rank was #8,323 in 1977.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Suma?

Suma had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2002
1 in 623,000
6 of 3,737,275 births
Among girls only
1 in 299,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2002
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
431,748 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Suma sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2002 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 431,748 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Suma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sumas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Suma was born before 1983 — so the typical Suma is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
35.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
53
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 35.8% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Suma rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (7)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,323
1977

Spellings of Suma

Suma is not the most common spelling — Susan is, with 34.4% against Suma's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Suma around the world

Where Suma ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2001
    #3,262
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Suma by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,323
1977
Peak year
1977
7 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
53
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Suma

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Suma

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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