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Sumner

#5,578 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Sumner has been given to 2,662 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #5,578 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 65 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% boys, 8% girls all-time.

Babies named Sumner, 2025

1 in 195,000

Sumner over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Sumner went to 26% girls and 74% boys.

18802025

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.

Sumner: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sumner means

Sumner is a given name.

The naming story behind Sumner

Wikidata records Sumner as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q16281789, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,444 boys were recorded with the name Sumner between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 65 in 1920; its best national rank was #553 in 1883.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,660 in 2020 to #5,578 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,707 in 2015 to #5,578 in 2025.

In the United States, 218 girls were recorded with the name Sumner between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1997; its best national rank was #7,227 in 1997.

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 Sumner?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,578
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sumner 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 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sumner. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sumners were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sumner was born before 1934 — so the typical Sumner is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
878
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 23.3% of all recorded uses (570).

Is Sumner 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
+1,200
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+82
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+129
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.06×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.2%
Peak was 1920 (65)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#553
1883

Spellings of Sumner

Sumner is not the most common spelling — Gunner is, with 56.8% against Sumner's 5.9%.

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 Sumner is used

Across 1910–2025, Sumner was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 6,667 boys, against 1 in 75,477 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

015 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 6,667
  2. 2Maine1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 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. Sumner has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Sumner

People whose public names include Sumner, 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.

Sumner by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,578
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 82
Best rank ever
#553
1883
Peak year
1920
65 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,444
Count in 2025
17

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,724
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,227
1997
Peak year
1997
13 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
218
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Sumner

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

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Names with a curve like Sumner

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

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Sibling names for Sumner

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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