Summit
#1,526 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Summit has been given to 1,271 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #1,526 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 114 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 81% boys, 19% girls all-time.
Babies named Summit, 2025
1 in 29,100
Summit 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Summit over time
In 2025, Summit went to 26% girls and 74% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Summit?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 29,100
- 114 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 15,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,526
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 20,158 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Summit 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 20,158 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Summit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Summits were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Summit was born before 2019 — so the typical Summit is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,024
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (512).
Is Summit 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
- +305
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +934
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,330
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.71×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (114)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.0% average annual change
Spellings of Summit
Summit is not the most common spelling — Sammie is, with 76.3% against Summit's 3.8%.
Where Summit is used — boys
Across 2016–2025, Summit was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 4,545 boys, against 1 in 38,348 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).
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.
Where Summit is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Summit was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,944,986 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Tennessee1 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. Summit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Summit around the world
Where Summit 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.
- Canada2019–2019#2,943in 2019
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Summit by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Summit
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Summit
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.