Summer Girl
How popular is Summer?
#151 girl name in 2025
1,973 baby girls were named Summer in the US in 2025, making it the 151st most popular girl name.
Summer popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #151 for girls (▼ 9 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,973 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+17% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #193 in 2015, #151 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1998 (2,558 girls) |
| Highest rank | #119 in 1977 |
| First recorded | 1949 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Summer counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Summer family of names ranked #172 for girls in 2025 (#168 the year before), with 1,980 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Summer | 1,973 | 100% |
| Sumer | 7 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Summer is most popular
Babies named Summer per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- District of Columbia: 4.0 per 1,000 (47 girls)
- Hawaii: 3.8 per 1,000 (43 girls)
- Rhode Island: 3.1 per 1,000 (39 girls)
- New Hampshire: 2.6 per 1,000 (48 girls)
- Maine: 2.3 per 1,000 (36 girls)
Summer by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,243 |
| 1950s | 149 | #2,340 |
| 1960s | 384 | #1,259 |
| 1970s | 9,031 | #119 |
| 1980s | 12,169 | #159 |
| 1990s | 18,807 | #131 |
| 2000s | 22,198 | #140 |
| 2010s | 16,905 | #163 |
| 2020s | 11,673 | #141 |
Girl names about as popular as Summer
Questions
- Is Summer a boy or girl name?
- Summer is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Summer were girls.
- How popular is the name Summer?
- 1,973 baby girls were named Summer in the US in 2025, making it the 151st most popular girl name.
- When was Summer most popular?
- Summer peaked in 1998, when 2,558 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #119 in 1977.
- How many people are named Summer?
- 91,575 babies have been named Summer in the US since 1880. We estimate about 90,102 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 24.
- Where is Summer most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Summer was most common in District of Columbia, at 4.0 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.