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Sumit

Boys' name

Well measured

Sumit has been given to 250 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1982, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Sumit, 2008

1 in 786,000

Sumit over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sumit: meaning, origin, and history

Well measured

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sumit means

Sumit means “well measured”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sumit is used in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Punjabi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 250 boys were recorded with the name Sumit between 1975 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1982; its best national rank was #2,410 in 1982.

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 Sumit?

Sumit had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 786,000
5 of 3,930,727 births
Among boys only
1 in 408,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
544,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sumit sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 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 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sumit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sumits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sumit was born before 1989 — so the typical Sumit is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
35.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
250
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 35.6% of all recorded uses (89).

Is Sumit 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 1982 (21)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
54.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,410
1982

Spellings of Sumit

Sumit is not the most common spelling — Samir is, with 33.5% against Sumit's 0.75%.

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 Sumit is used

Across 1910–2025, Sumit was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Sumit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sumit around the world

Where Sumit 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
    1997–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1995–1997
    #1,557
    in 1997

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

Sumit by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,410
1982
Peak year
1982
21 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
250
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sumit

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

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Sibling names for Sumit

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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