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Sumayyah vs Sumner

American parents have registered 2,662 Sumners since 1880, against 955 Sumayyahs. But in 2025 it was Sumayyah that was commoner, 35 babies to 23.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sumayyah against Sumner, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sumayyah Sumner

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 135 years in which either name was published, Sumner for 112 years and Sumayyah for 23 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Sumayyah Sumner
Total US births 9552,662
Most in one year 4565
Babies in 2025 3523
Estimated living today 9501,200
Median age today 1229
Peak year 20201920
Best rank 3,399th girls835th boys
Rank in 2025 4,067th5,399th
First recorded 19761880
Girls / boys 955 / 0218 / 2,444

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Sumners alive today are over 29; half the Sumayyahs are over 12. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sumayyah and Sumner.