Summer

At the 2020 census, 2,624 Americans bore the surname Summer — 11,480th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 114,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,624
Rank: 11,480th
How common: 1 in 114,000
Per 100,000: 0.88

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Summer described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 81.8%
Black, not Hispanic 8.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Summer

Donna Summer (1948–2012)American singer
India Summer (born 1975)American pornographic actress
Cree Summer (born 1969)American actress

People named Summer with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Summer

Also a first name

Summer has been given to 91,575 American babies as a first name since 1918, peaking in 1998. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.