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Sumaiya

#7,097 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Sumayya

Sumaiya has been given to 588 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #7,097 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Sumaiya, 2025

1 in 207,000

Sumaiya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sumaiya: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Sumayya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sumaiya means

Sumaiya is a form of Sumayya.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Sumaiya → Sumayya. The family’s meaning is “high, elevated, lofty”, recorded in the naming reference for Sumayya.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sumayya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 588 girls were recorded with the name Sumaiya between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2007; its best national rank was #4,885 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,893 in 2020 to #7,097 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,437 in 2015 to #7,097 in 2025.

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.

How common is Sumaiya?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,097
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sumaiya 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 2025 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sumaiya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sumaiyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sumaiya was born before 2010 — so the typical Sumaiya is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
588
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Choose a decade

2000s — 37.8% of all recorded uses (222).

Is Sumaiya 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
−1,969
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,796
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,660
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.3%
Peak was 2007 (30)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,885
2002

Spellings of Sumaiya

Sumaiya is not the most common spelling — Maiya is, with 20.1% against Sumaiya's 2.7%.

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.

Where Sumaiya is used

Across 1910–2025, Sumaiya was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 200,839 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sumaiya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sumaiya around the world

Where Sumaiya 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
    1996–2025
    #1,809
    in 2025
  • France
    2024–2024
    #6,043
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1995–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Sumaiya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,097
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,796
Best rank ever
#4,885
2002
Peak year
2007
30 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
588
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Sumaiya

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

SumayahSumayyaSumiyaSumayyahAmariyaSumaiyahSamaiyaMakaiyaMalaiyaKhaliyaSumeyaSummitSabriyaSanaiyaSumnerAzariyaAmeliyaSaraiyaSophiyaNikiyaLiliyaSuraiyaSumayaSumiko

Sibling names for Sumaiya

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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