Meaning not yet researched.
Summer: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,973 in 2025. Its best rank was #119 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #119 in 1977; #152 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Summer in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#152 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #119.
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Summer: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,973 girls in 2025. Peak: #119 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 2,558 (1998).
In 2025, 1,973 US girls were named Summer, making it the 152nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 10 places from #142 in 2024. That is 104 fewer than the 2,077 girls named Summer in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #119, reached in 1977. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,558, in 1998. For comparison, it was #193 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Summer in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 9 babies. In all, 91,575 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 22,238 babies named Summer.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 17,885 US girls were named Summer; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 2,077. In 2025 that was about 1 in 815 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Summer ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #71 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 7 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Sommer (6,080 babies since 1880), Somer (2,244 babies since 1880) and Sumer (1,527 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Summar, Summers and Sumar are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Summar (329), Summers (76), Sumar (53), Sommar (32), Sumair (13), Sumir (5), Summyr (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Summer in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 6 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 35 | #71 | #179 |
| South Carolina | 48 | #85 | #143 |
| Rhode Island | 10 | #89 | — |
| New Hampshire | 14 | #89 | #146 |
| Florida | 175 | #92 | #143 |
| New Jersey | 73 | #99 | #176 |
| Massachusetts | 55 | #100 | #320 |
| Vermont | 5 | #102 | — |
| Maine | 10 | #113 | #153 |
| California | 255 | #115 | #202 |
| Virginia | 58 | #130 | #149 |
| Missouri | 46 | #131 | #297 |
| Georgia | 74 | #136 | #130 |
| New York | 120 | #136 | #218 |
| Washington | 51 | #137 | #238 |
| North Carolina | 72 | #138 | #151 |
| Montana | 8 | #139 | — |
| Wisconsin | 38 | #141 | #206 |
| District of Columbia | 6 | #145 | — |
| Alabama | 30 | #148 | #202 |
| Illinois | 64 | #156 | #248 |
| Utah | 29 | #156 | #173 |
| Indiana | 44 | #159 | #266 |
| Idaho | 14 | #159 | #277 |
| Michigan | 54 | #160 | #158 |
| Arizona | 38 | #169 | #232 |
| West Virginia | 10 | #178 | #139 |
| Tennessee | 43 | #180 | #176 |
| Maryland | 28 | #188 | #169 |
| Colorado | 31 | #199 | #293 |
| Texas | 162 | #212 | #270 |
| Mississippi | 13 | #216 | #103 |
| Pennsylvania | 52 | #219 | #189 |
| Louisiana | 20 | #223 | #265 |
| Nevada | 12 | #230 | #282 |
| Nebraska | 10 | #243 | #304 |
| Ohio | 46 | #247 | #208 |
| Oregon | 15 | #258 | #315 |
| Minnesota | 21 | #269 | #214 |
| Iowa | 13 | #273 | #205 |
| Kentucky | 17 | #274 | #137 |
| Kansas | 11 | #319 | #331 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #333 | #236 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #337 | #250 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #384 | #184 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,973 | #152 | — | — |
| 2024 | 2,077 | #142 | 8 | #9,751 |
| 2023 | 1,971 | #141 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,876 | #152 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,961 | #141 | 5 | #13,823 |
| 2020 | 1,815 | #151 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,642 | #178 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,553 | #199 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,411 | #219 | 7 | #10,623 |
| 2016 | 1,606 | #202 | 6 | #11,955 |
| 2015 | 1,692 | #193 | 8 | #9,450 |
| 2014 | 1,781 | #183 | 16 | #5,685 |
| 2013 | 1,734 | #186 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,781 | #175 | 5 | #13,952 |
| 2011 | 1,817 | #173 | 5 | #14,073 |
| 2010 | 1,888 | #163 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,903 | #174 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,959 | #169 | — | — |
| 2007 | 2,252 | #159 | — | — |
| 2006 | 2,261 | #152 | — | — |
| 2005 | 2,412 | #140 | 5 | #13,098 |
| 2004 | 2,333 | #140 | 28 | #3,441 |
| 2003 | 2,212 | #153 | — | — |
| 2002 | 2,213 | #151 | — | — |
| 2001 | 2,314 | #142 | 7 | #9,107 |
| 2000 | 2,339 | #145 | — | — |
| 1999 | 2,337 | #136 | 7 | #8,584 |
| 1998 | 2,558 | #131 | — | — |
| 1997 | 2,480 | #131 | — | — |
| 1996 | 2,345 | #137 | 11 | #5,484 |
| 1995 | 2,124 | #153 | — | — |
| 1994 | 2,239 | #141 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,617 | #180 | 6 | #8,573 |
| 1992 | 1,102 | #254 | — | — |
| 1991 | 984 | #286 | 5 | #9,451 |
| 1990 | 1,021 | #271 | — | — |
| 1989 | 910 | #288 | — | — |
| 1988 | 986 | #258 | — | — |
| 1987 | 1,042 | #247 | 6 | #6,840 |
| 1986 | 1,127 | #230 | 8 | #5,269 |
| 1985 | 1,166 | #226 | — | — |
| 1984 | 1,212 | #215 | 12 | #3,659 |
| 1983 | 1,166 | #216 | 11 | #3,846 |
| 1982 | 1,262 | #211 | 6 | #6,301 |
| 1981 | 1,544 | #179 | 7 | #5,420 |
| 1980 | 1,754 | #159 | 8 | #4,883 |
| 1979 | 1,861 | #150 | 8 | #4,799 |
| 1978 | 1,917 | #143 | 13 | #3,200 |
| 1977 | 2,447 | #119 | 20 | #2,347 |
| 1976 | 1,072 | #227 | 11 | #3,454 |
| 1975 | 784 | #299 | — | — |
| 1974 | 314 | #536 | — | — |
| 1973 | 184 | #753 | 6 | #5,015 |
| 1972 | 197 | #725 | — | — |
| 1971 | 156 | #866 | — | — |
| 1970 | 99 | #1,176 | — | — |
| 1969 | 79 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1968 | 48 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 1967 | 45 | #1,726 | — | — |
| 1966 | 33 | #2,053 | — | — |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,241 | — | — |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,104 | — | — |
| 1963 | 36 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,904 | — | — |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,997 | — | — |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,292 | — | — |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,510 | — | — |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,953 | — | — |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,288 | — | — |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,615 | — | — |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,403 | — | — |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,879 | — | — |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,423 | — | — |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,571 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,958 | — | — |
| 1918 | — | — | 9 | #3,076 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).