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Sumaya

#2,383 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Sumayya

Sumaya has been given to 2,142 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #2,383 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 109 recorded.

Babies named Sumaya, 2025

1 in 43,600

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sumaya: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Sumayya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sumaya means

Sumaya is a alternate transcription of Sumayya.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Sumaya is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sumayya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,142 girls were recorded with the name Sumaya between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 109 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,883 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,373 in 2020 to #2,383 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,934 in 2015 to #2,383 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sumaya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 43,600
76 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 21,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,383
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
30,237 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sumaya 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 30,237 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sumaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sumayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sumaya was born before 2012 — so the typical Sumaya is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,142
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 43.1% of all recorded uses (923).

Is Sumaya 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
+273
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−10
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−449
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.72×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
69.7%
Peak was 2016 (109)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,883
2016

Spellings of Sumaya

Sumaya is not the most common spelling — Maya is, with 48.9% against Sumaya's 0.85%.

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 Sumaya is used

Across 2016–2025, Sumaya was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 1,333 girls, against 1 in 15,056 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

175 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 1,333
  2. 2Washington1 in 6,667
  3. 3New York1 in 10,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 12,500
  5. 5Illinois1 in 25,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  7. 7California1 in 50,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 50,000

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.

Sumaya around the world

Where Sumaya 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
    #1,166
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2010
    #802
    in 2010
  • Ireland
    2010–2010
    #758
    in 2010
  • France
    1983–2025
    #2,193
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2024
    #385
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,469
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2012
    #431
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Sumaya

People whose public names include Sumaya, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Sumaya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,383
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 10
Best rank ever
#1,883
2016
Peak year
2016
109 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,142
Count in 2025
76

Names similar to Sumaya

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

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Names with a curve like Sumaya

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sumaya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Sumaya

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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