Sumaya
#2,368 for girls in 2025, 76 births
- Peak · girls
- 2016 · 109 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,142since 1969
Sumaya over time
Rank among girls' names. Sumaya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,368 | 76 |
| 2024 | #2,637 | 66 |
| 2023 | #2,397 | 75 |
| 2022 | #2,756 | 62 |
| 2021 | #2,848 | 59 |
| 2020 | #2,341 | 75 |
| 2019 | #2,128 | 88 |
| 2018 | #2,190 | 85 |
| 2017 | #2,200 | 86 |
| 2016 | #1,875 | 109 |
| 2015 | #1,919 | 105 |
| 2014 | #2,081 | 93 |
| 2013 | #2,173 | 86 |
| 2012 | #2,047 | 94 |
| 2011 | #2,156 | 88 |
| 2010 | #2,185 | 89 |
| 2009 | #2,286 | 85 |
| 2008 | #2,485 | 76 |
| 2007 | #2,134 | 94 |
| 2006 | #2,485 | 74 |
| 2005 | #2,607 | 65 |
| 2004 | #2,781 | 58 |
| 2003 | #2,923 | 52 |
| 2002 | #3,103 | 46 |
| 2001 | #3,009 | 47 |
| 2000 | #3,738 | 34 |
| 1999 | #3,509 | 35 |
| 1998 | #4,366 | 25 |
| 1997 | #5,228 | 19 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 |
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| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 |
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| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 |
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| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
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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.
Where Sumaya is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#221 · 1 in 961
- New York#1,072 · 1 in 6,591
- Washington#1,075 · 1 in 6,090
- California#2,538 · 1 in 26,135
Best ever in a state: #206 in Minnesota, 2015.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #221 | 25 | 1 in 961 |
| New York | #1,072 | 14 | 1 in 6,591 |
| Washington | #1,075 | 5 | 1 in 6,090 |
| California | #2,538 | 8 | 1 in 26,135 |
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See more about Sumaya
- 269 spots since 2024 (#2,637 → #2,368)
- 27 spots since 2020 (#2,341 → #2,368)
- 449 spots since 2015 (#1,919 → #2,368)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2016 at #1,875 (109 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 43.1% of all girls named Sumaya (923) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #7,471 (1969) | #7,471 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 26 | #7,398 (1984) | #9,529 |
| 1990s | 144 | #3,509 (1999) | #7,818 |
| 2000s | 631 | #2,134 (2007) | #2,755 |
| 2010s | 923 | #1,875 (2016) | #2,095 |
| 2020s | 413 | #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
Top girls' names in 2012
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).
- #2,028Preslie95
- #2,028Rochel95
- #2,028Zofia95
- #2,047Sumaya94
- #2,047Connie94
- #2,047Ebony94
- #2,047Emoni94
- #2,064Aadya93
- #2,064Alea93
- #2,064Alexandrea93
Tied with 16 names at #2,047; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.