Summer
#151 for girls in 2025, 1,973 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #8,987
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1977 · 2,447 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 91,321since 1949
Summer over time
Rank among girls' names. Summer has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #151 | 1,973 | — | |
| 2024 | #142 | 2,077 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | #141 | 1,971 | — | |
| 2022 | #152 | 1,876 | — | |
| 2021 | #141 | 1,961 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #151 | 1,815 | — | |
| 2019 | #178 | 1,642 | — | |
| 2018 | #199 | 1,553 | — | |
| 2017 | #219 | 1,411 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #200 | 1,606 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #193 | 1,692 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #182 | 1,781 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | #186 | 1,734 | — | |
| 2012 | #175 | 1,781 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #173 | 1,817 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #163 | 1,888 | — | |
| 2009 | #174 | 1,903 | — | |
| 2008 | #169 | 1,959 | — | |
| 2007 | #159 | 2,252 | — | |
| 2006 | #152 | 2,261 | — | |
| 2005 | #140 | 2,412 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #140 | 2,333 | #3,368 | 28 |
| 2003 | #153 | 2,212 | — | |
| 2002 | #151 | 2,213 | — | |
| 2001 | #142 | 2,314 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #145 | 2,339 | — | |
| 1999 | #136 | 2,337 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #131 | 2,558 | — | |
| 1997 | #131 | 2,480 | — | |
| 1996 | #137 | 2,345 | #5,187 | 11 |
| 1995 | #153 | 2,124 | — | |
| 1994 | #141 | 2,239 | — | |
| 1993 | #180 | 1,617 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #254 | 1,102 | — | |
| 1991 | #286 | 984 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #271 | 1,021 | — | |
| 1989 | #288 | 910 | — | |
| 1988 | #258 | 986 | — | |
| 1987 | #247 | 1,042 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #230 | 1,127 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #225 | 1,166 | — | |
| 1984 | #215 | 1,212 | #3,459 | 12 |
| 1983 | #216 | 1,166 | #3,630 | 11 |
| 1982 | #211 | 1,262 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #179 | 1,544 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | #159 | 1,754 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #150 | 1,861 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #143 | 1,917 | #3,070 | 13 |
| 1977 | #119 | 2,447 | #2,270 | 20 |
| 1976 | #227 | 1,072 | #3,264 | 11 |
| 1975 | #299 | 784 | — | |
| 1974 | #533 | 314 | — | |
| 1973 | #752 | 184 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #724 | 197 | — | |
| 1971 | #863 | 156 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,168 | 99 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,259 | 79 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,678 | 48 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,702 | 45 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,022 | 33 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,204 | 29 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,071 | 33 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,952 | 36 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,814 | 19 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,955 | 35 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,246 | 27 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,458 | 22 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,862 | 17 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,150 | 14 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,530 | 20 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,341 | 22 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,779 | 16 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,363 | 20 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,502 | 18 | — | |
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| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Summer! It came in at #5,244, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1951, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Summer is popular in 2000
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#55 · 1 in 227
- Tennessee#59 · 1 in 281
- Mississippi#64 · 1 in 293
- North Carolina#69 · 1 in 361
- Arkansas#75 · 1 in 329
Best ever in a state: #24 in Hawaii, 1977.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #55 | 32 | 1 in 227 |
| Tennessee | #59 | 111 | 1 in 281 |
| Mississippi | #64 | 41 | 1 in 293 |
| North Carolina | #69 | 125 | 1 in 361 |
| Arkansas | #75 | 37 | 1 in 329 |
| Kentucky | #75 | 60 | 1 in 341 |
| Alabama | #79 | 57 | 1 in 371 |
| Georgia | #80 | 126 | 1 in 381 |
| Oklahoma | #86 | 47 | 1 in 357 |
| South Carolina | #87 | 46 | 1 in 368 |
| Virginia | #100 | 73 | 1 in 487 |
| Louisiana | #101 | 49 | 1 in 447 |
| Florida | #104 | 155 | 1 in 499 |
| Ohio | #112 | 113 | 1 in 549 |
| Missouri | #121 | 54 | 1 in 545 |
| Kansas | #127 | 27 | 1 in 494 |
| Maine | #128 | 9 | 1 in 500 |
| Michigan | #128 | 85 | 1 in 612 |
| Nevada | #130 | 20 | 1 in 475 |
| Delaware | #131 | 7 | 1 in 434 |
| Hawaii | #143 | 8 | 1 in 450 |
| Alaska | #149 | 5 | 1 in 457 |
| Washington | #149 | 44 | 1 in 667 |
| South Dakota | #150 | 6 | 1 in 479 |
| Maryland | #152 | 36 | 1 in 683 |
| Minnesota | #153 | 37 | 1 in 693 |
| Indiana | #154 | 47 | 1 in 709 |
| Utah | #154 | 28 | 1 in 609 |
| Wisconsin | #165 | 32 | 1 in 797 |
| Colorado | #167 | 35 | 1 in 688 |
| Nebraska | #167 | 13 | 1 in 643 |
| Pennsylvania | #170 | 69 | 1 in 841 |
| Iowa | #178 | 18 | 1 in 788 |
| New Hampshire | #185 | 6 | 1 in 763 |
| New Mexico | #185 | 12 | 1 in 680 |
| Idaho | #186 | 9 | 1 in 675 |
| Texas | #191 | 180 | 1 in 851 |
| California | #199 | 228 | 1 in 982 |
| Arizona | #206 | 37 | 1 in 863 |
| Connecticut | #218 | 15 | 1 in 1,011 |
| Illinois | #237 | 61 | 1 in 1,168 |
| Oregon | #260 | 15 | 1 in 1,098 |
| New Jersey | #261 | 29 | 1 in 1,440 |
| New York | #292 | 60 | 1 in 1,674 |
| Massachusetts | #326 | 17 | 1 in 1,847 |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
| Montana | — | — | — |
| North Dakota | — | — | — |
| Rhode Island | — | — | — |
| Vermont | — | — | — |
| Wyoming | — | — | — |
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 Summer
- 9 spots since 2024 (#142 → #151)
- Same as 2020 (#151)
- 42 spots since 2015 (#193 → #151)
- Biggest jump: 305 spots in 1971 (#1,168 → #863)
- Biggest drop: 32 spots in 1982 (#179 → #211)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 1977 at #119 (2,447 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 55 yrs · run 1971–2025
- Highest: 1 in 627 girls born in 1977 were named Summer (0.16%)
- Latest: 1 in 815 girls born in 2025 (0.12%)
- 24.3% of all girls named Summer (22,198) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,244 (1949) | #5,244 |
| 1950s | 149 | #2,341 (1955) | #2,623 |
| 1960s | 384 | #1,259 (1969) | #1,990 |
| 1970s | 9,031 | #119 (1977) | #498 |
| 1980s | 12,169 | #159 (1980) | #223 |
| 1990s | 18,807 | #131 (1998) | #182 |
| 2000s | 22,198 | #140 (2005) | #153 |
| 2010s | 16,905 | #163 (2010) | #187 |
| 2020s | 11,673 | #141 (2023) | #146 |
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.
Summer in 2000
Top girls' names in 2000
More about 2000
girls
1,816,036 girls got a published name in 2000; 1 in 776 of them was named Summer, which outranked 99.2% of the 17,660 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.