Sumaya

#2,368 for girls in 2025, 76 births

Peak · girls
2016 · 109 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,142
since 1969

Sumaya over time

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Rank among girls' names. Sumaya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202012peak #1,875, 2016girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#2,36876
2024#2,63766
2023#2,39775
2022#2,75662
2021#2,84859
2020#2,34175
2019#2,12888
2018#2,19085
2017#2,20086
2016#1,875109
2015#1,919105
2014#2,08193
2013#2,17386
2012#2,04794
2011#2,15688
2010#2,18589
2009#2,28685
2008#2,48576
2007#2,13494
2006#2,48574
2005#2,60765
2004#2,78158
2003#2,92352
2002#3,10346
2001#3,00947
2000#3,73834
1999#3,50935
1998#4,36625
1997#5,22819
1996#5,06519
1995#10,5147
1994#9,5868
1993#7,49811
1992#9,4918
1991#11,5096
1990#11,4096
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First appearance
1969

The first year at least five girls were named Sumaya! It came in at #7,471, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1969–1980, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Sumaya
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 269 spots since 2024 (#2,637#2,368)
  • 27 spots since 2020 (#2,341#2,368)
  • 449 spots since 2015 (#1,919#2,368)
Rise & fade · girls
47 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1969
  • Peaked 2016 at #1,875 (109 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 16,257
  • Highest: 1 in 16,257 girls born in 2016 were named Sumaya (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 21,148 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 43.1% of all girls named Sumaya (923) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s5#7,471 (1969)#7,471
1970s0
1980s26#7,398 (1984)#9,529
1990s144#3,509 (1999)#7,818
2000s631#2,134 (2007)#2,755
2010s923#1,875 (2016)#2,095
2020s413#2,341 (2020)#2,558

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.

Sumaya in 2012

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#2,047
94 births · 1 in 18,735 girls

Top girls' names in 2012

  1. #1Sophia22,336
  2. #2Emma20,976
  3. #3Isabella19,138
  4. #4Olivia17,333
  5. #5Ava15,549
  6. #6Emily13,666
  7. #7Abigail12,730
  8. #8Mia12,039
  9. #9Madison11,417
  10. #10Elizabeth9,730
  11. #2,047Sumaya94
More about 2012

girls

1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 18,735 of them was named Sumaya, which outranked 89.5% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Sumaya
  1. #2,028Preslie95
  2. #2,028Rochel95
  3. #2,028Zofia95
  4. #2,047Sumaya94
  5. #2,047Connie94
  6. #2,047Ebony94
  7. #2,047Emoni94
  8. #2,064Aadya93
  9. #2,064Alea93
  10. #2,064Alexandrea93

Tied with 16 names at #2,047; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2011
Risers
  1. 4,327Cataleya#4,807#480
  2. 1,931Adley#2,664#733
  3. 917Litzy#1,515#598
  4. 784Kenia#1,427#643
  5. 580Monroe#1,531#951
Fallers
  1. 429Jaden#979#1,408
  2. 365Payten#994#1,359
  3. 326Yamilet#925#1,251
  4. 316Shaniya#915#1,231
  5. 264Shania#898#1,162

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2012