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Sumaya vs Summit

American parents have registered 2,142 Sumayas since 1880, against 1,271 Summits. But in 2025 it was Summit that was commoner, 155 babies to 76.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sumaya against Summit, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sumaya Summit

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 41 years in which either name was published, Sumaya for 35 years and Summit for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Sumaya Summit
Total US births 2,1421,271
Most in one year 109155
Babies in 2025 76155
Estimated living today 2,1001,300
Median age today 135
Peak year 20162025
Best rank 1,875th girls1,520th boys
Rank in 2025 2,368th1,520th
First recorded 19691999
Girls / boys 2,142 / 0247 / 1,024

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 Sumayas alive today are over 13; half the Summits are over 5. That is 8 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: Sumaya and Summit.