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Sumaya

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Sumaya is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 66 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
660.00% of girls
Peak year
2016109 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1969
2,066people given the name
Babies named Sumaya, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

2,066 girls have been named Sumaya in the United States since 1969, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 109 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 45%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Sumaya
1960s5
1980s26
1990s144
2000s631
2010s923
2020s337

In 2016, its biggest year

Sumaya was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2016 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2016.

Names that rose and fell with Sumaya

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.