Summer
Summer is ranked 142nd among girls in 2024 (2,065 births). Its best rank was 119th, in 1977.
- Rank in 2024
- #142down 1 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,0650.13% of girls
- Peak year
- 19982,558 births
- Best rank
- #119in 1977
- Since 1949
- 89,323people given the name
The story in the numbers
89,323 girls have been named Summer in the United States since 1949, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 2,558 births — 0.14% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 182 → 142).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 25%. It has spent 54 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Summer | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | |
| 1950s | 149 | |
| 1960s | 384 | |
| 1970s | 9,032 | |
| 1980s | 12,170 | |
| 1990s | 18,806 | |
| 2000s | 22,195 | |
| 2010s | 16,898 | |
| 2020s | 9,684 |
In 1998, its biggest year
Summer was the 131st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1998 were Emily, Hannah, Samantha, Sarah and Ashley. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Summer
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Josipeak 2002
- Mahoganypeak 2000
- Decemberpeak 2012
- Raenapeak 2005
- Zakiyapeak 1997
- Nadirapeak 2000
- Elisiapeak 2000
- Nubiapeak 1993
Other spellings in the data
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.