Sumer
#13,033 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sumer has been given to 1,527 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #13,033 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 86 recorded.
Babies named Sumer, 2025
1 in 474,000
Sumer over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Sumer?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #13,033
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sumer sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sumer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sumers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sumer was born before 1991 — so the typical Sumer is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 28.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 22.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,527
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 28.4% of all recorded uses (433).
Is Sumer 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +280
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −159
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.88×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 8.1%
- Peak was 1977 (86)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.5% average annual change
Spellings of Sumer
Sumer is not the most common spelling — Sue is, with 57.4% against Sumer's 0.61%.
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 Sumer is used
Across 1910–2025, Sumer was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 233,800 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Florida1 in 100,000
- 3Alabama1 in —
- 4Louisiana1 in —
- 5North Carolina1 in —
- 6New York1 in —
- 7Oklahoma1 in —
- 8Texas1 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. Sumer has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sumer around the world
Where Sumer 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 & Wales1996–2010#4,688in 2010
- Canada1995–1995#2,576in 1995
- South Australia1978–2003#739in 2003
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sumer by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sumer
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sumer
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.