Sommer
#4,878 for girls in 2025, 27 births
- Peak · girls
- 1977 · 464 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,080since 1966
Sommer over time
Rank among girls' names. Sommer has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,878 | 27 |
| 2024 | #4,560 | 30 |
| 2023 | #4,454 | 31 |
| 2022 | #3,827 | 39 |
| 2021 | #3,435 | 45 |
| 2020 | #4,648 | 28 |
| 2019 | #4,437 | 31 |
| 2018 | #3,614 | 42 |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 |
| 2015 | #4,232 | 34 |
| 2014 | #3,925 | 38 |
| 2013 | #4,156 | 35 |
| 2012 | #3,523 | 45 |
| 2011 | #3,659 | 42 |
| 2010 | #3,010 | 56 |
| 2009 | #3,409 | 48 |
| 2008 | #2,584 | 72 |
| 2007 | #2,276 | 85 |
| 2006 | #2,098 | 93 |
| 2005 | #1,755 | 112 |
| 2004 | #1,781 | 107 |
| 2003 | #1,925 | 94 |
| 2002 | #1,606 | 115 |
| 2001 | #1,246 | 159 |
| 2000 | #1,270 | 153 |
| 1999 | #1,199 | 160 |
| 1998 | #1,088 | 178 |
| 1997 | #1,079 | 174 |
| 1996 | #1,119 | 162 |
| 1995 | #902 | 210 |
| 1994 | #1,018 | 182 |
| 1993 | #1,211 | 143 |
| 1992 | #1,830 | 78 |
| 1991 | #1,642 | 91 |
| 1990 | #1,670 | 88 |
| 1989 | #1,414 | 105 |
| 1988 | #1,392 | 101 |
| 1987 | #1,209 | 119 |
| 1986 | #1,272 | 106 |
| 1985 | #1,037 | 145 |
| 1984 | #988 | 146 |
| 1983 | #1,015 | 139 |
| 1982 | #850 | 183 |
| 1981 | #735 | 224 |
| 1980 | #650 | 281 |
| 1979 | #572 | 318 |
| 1978 | #530 | 346 |
| 1977 | #441 | 464 |
| 1976 | #849 | 161 |
| 1975 | #1,459 | 70 |
| 1974 | #3,212 | 21 |
| 1973 | #2,753 | 25 |
| 1972 | #4,300 | 13 |
| 1971 | #3,789 | 16 |
| 1970 | #3,435 | 18 |
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| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 |
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| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sommer! It came in at #6,564, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1966–1967, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Sommer is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oklahoma#206 · 1 in 945
- West Virginia#221 · 1 in 1,180
- Louisiana#284 · 1 in 1,448
- Florida#290 · 1 in 1,761
- Nebraska#302 · 1 in 1,965
Best ever in a state: #104 in North Dakota, 1977.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #206 | 18 | 1 in 945 |
| West Virginia | #221 | 10 | 1 in 1,180 |
| Louisiana | #284 | 19 | 1 in 1,448 |
| Florida | #290 | 25 | 1 in 1,761 |
| Nebraska | #302 | 5 | 1 in 1,965 |
| Wisconsin | #325 | 11 | 1 in 2,633 |
| Minnesota | #358 | 9 | 1 in 2,949 |
| Oregon | #401 | 6 | 1 in 2,574 |
| South Carolina | #401 | 7 | 1 in 2,436 |
| Michigan | #410 | 18 | 1 in 3,197 |
| Ohio | #415 | 20 | 1 in 3,448 |
| Tennessee | #458 | 8 | 1 in 3,483 |
| Washington | #460 | 7 | 1 in 3,278 |
| Alabama | #461 | 7 | 1 in 3,107 |
| Indiana | #493 | 8 | 1 in 4,349 |
| North Carolina | #503 | 8 | 1 in 4,046 |
| Kentucky | #511 | 5 | 1 in 4,778 |
| Arizona | #522 | 5 | 1 in 3,277 |
| California | #553 | 40 | 1 in 3,833 |
| Pennsylvania | #567 | 12 | 1 in 5,500 |
| Texas | #622 | 23 | 1 in 4,495 |
| Missouri | #642 | 5 | 1 in 6,131 |
| Georgia | #669 | 6 | 1 in 5,375 |
| Illinois | #767 | 10 | 1 in 7,090 |
| New York | #1,000 | 10 | 1 in 9,833 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Sommer
- 318 spots since 2024 (#4,560 → #4,878)
- 230 spots since 2020 (#4,648 → #4,878)
- 646 spots since 2015 (#4,232 → #4,878)
- Biggest jump: 610 spots in 1976 (#1,459 → #849)
- Biggest drop: 217 spots in 1996 (#902 → #1,119)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 1977 at #441 (464 births)
- Births halved by 1981, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 1976–1982
- Highest: 1 in 3,304 girls born in 1977 were named Sommer (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 59,528 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 25.5% of all girls named Sommer (1,549) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12 | #5,642 (1968) | #6,103 |
| 1970s | 1,452 | #441 (1977) | #2,134 |
| 1980s | 1,549 | #650 (1980) | #1,056 |
| 1990s | 1,466 | #902 (1995) | #1,276 |
| 2000s | 1,038 | #1,246 (2001) | #1,995 |
| 2010s | 363 | #3,010 (2010) | #4,312 |
| 2020s | 200 | #3,435 (2021) | #4,300 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sommer in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 4,427 of them was named Sommer, which outranked 95.4% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.