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 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#97 · 1 in 352
- Connecticut#105 · 1 in 432
- North Carolina#123 · 1 in 564
- Maryland#125 · 1 in 517
- Georgia#127 · 1 in 610
Best ever in a state: #24 in Hawaii, 1977.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #97 | 18 | 1 in 352 |
| Connecticut | #105 | 28 | 1 in 432 |
| North Carolina | #123 | 80 | 1 in 564 |
| Maryland | #125 | 47 | 1 in 517 |
| Georgia | #127 | 79 | 1 in 610 |
| Mississippi | #128 | 23 | 1 in 490 |
| Alaska | #130 | 7 | 1 in 371 |
| Florida | #132 | 131 | 1 in 639 |
| South Carolina | #154 | 28 | 1 in 652 |
| Pennsylvania | #155 | 77 | 1 in 691 |
| Michigan | #157 | 59 | 1 in 715 |
| Tennessee | #157 | 46 | 1 in 676 |
| Delaware | #159 | 6 | 1 in 469 |
| New Jersey | #159 | 52 | 1 in 714 |
| Virginia | #162 | 51 | 1 in 732 |
| Utah | #163 | 27 | 1 in 671 |
| Louisiana | #171 | 30 | 1 in 697 |
| Alabama | #175 | 27 | 1 in 716 |
| Arkansas | #179 | 17 | 1 in 683 |
| Kentucky | #184 | 25 | 1 in 739 |
| Arizona | #188 | 40 | 1 in 793 |
| California | #191 | 224 | 1 in 936 |
| Massachusetts | #191 | 30 | 1 in 846 |
| Missouri | #193 | 33 | 1 in 822 |
| New Hampshire | #193 | 6 | 1 in 629 |
| District of Columbia | #202 | 6 | 1 in 577 |
| Kansas | #208 | 17 | 1 in 763 |
| Minnesota | #208 | 28 | 1 in 882 |
| Montana | #209 | 5 | 1 in 598 |
| South Dakota | #212 | 5 | 1 in 631 |
| Ohio | #218 | 54 | 1 in 980 |
| New York | #225 | 85 | 1 in 1,088 |
| North Dakota | #225 | 5 | 1 in 677 |
| Oklahoma | #227 | 19 | 1 in 887 |
| Washington | #228 | 33 | 1 in 952 |
| Hawaii | #231 | 5 | 1 in 647 |
| Texas | #234 | 146 | 1 in 1,142 |
| New Mexico | #243 | 8 | 1 in 862 |
| Wisconsin | #250 | 22 | 1 in 1,050 |
| Iowa | #253 | 13 | 1 in 997 |
| Illinois | #260 | 49 | 1 in 1,203 |
| Indiana | #267 | 28 | 1 in 1,091 |
| Oregon | #289 | 13 | 1 in 1,190 |
| Colorado | #294 | 19 | 1 in 1,223 |
| Nebraska | #309 | 7 | 1 in 1,144 |
| Idaho | #310 | 6 | 1 in 1,073 |
| Nevada | #324 | 9 | 1 in 1,198 |
| Maine | — | — | — |
| 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 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 1,003 of them was named Summer, which outranked 99.1% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #179Jessica1,804
- #180Daisy1,791
- #181Rebecca1,782
- #182Summer1,781
- #182Makenzie1,781
- #184Lila1,776
- #185Julianna1,773
- #186Callie1,763
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 120,054 of them was named Summer, which outranked 61.0% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,252Zeek17
- #5,252Zephan17
- #5,252Zubair17
- #5,485Summer16
- #5,485Aaban16
- #5,485Aasim16
- #5,485Abdifatah16
- #5,733Abdulla15
- #5,733Abdurahman15
- #5,733Abrar15
Tied with 247 names at #5,485; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.