Sumner
The boy's name Sumner has been in the national records since 1880, with 2,662 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 5,399th. About 1,200 Sumners are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,662
- Estimated living today
- 1,200
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 835th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,399th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 218 / 2,444
How old the living Sumners are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,662 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,200 are alive — 43 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Sumners
- Sumner Paine (1868–1904)American sport shooter
- Sumner Welles (1892–1961)American government official and diplomat
- Sumner Redstone (1923–2020)American businessman and media magnate
- Franklin Sumner Earle (1856–1929)American mycologist
- Sumner White (1929–1988)American sailor
- Charles Sumner Hamlin (1861–1938)American politician
People named Sumner with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sumner is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sumner is most concentrated in Massachusetts (37.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
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Sumner against another name
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.