Sumayyah

What Sumayyah means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Sumayyah yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1976, with 6 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Sumayyah?

US: Steady: #4144 in 2015, #4067 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #449 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2020, when 45 girls got the name (#3399 that year). First in the US records in 1976.

How common

• About 1 in 45,922 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,303 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in CA (0.03 per 1,000 girls), TX (0.03 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Sumayyah is #4067 in the US and #386 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Sumayyah were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Sumaya76 US · 28 E&W
• Sumayya45 US · 14 E&W
• Sumayah22 US · 16 E&W
• Sumaiya16 US · 16 E&W
• Samayah24 US · 3 E&W
• Sumaiyah5 US · 10 E&W
• Summyah6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Sumayyah

Girls

• Haven#190Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #190 vs #1,512 in 2025
• Saylor#217“dancer, acrobat”^*
• Parker#106From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Emerson#122Editor’s note Used for both: 62% of US babies named Emerson in 2025 were girls
• Adalynn#184Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*
• Madelyn#70Editor’s note Down from #59 in 2015 to #70 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025
• Liam#1Form of William, meaning “will + helmet”^*
• Amari#185“Does the given name have different origins?”^*
• Declan#139Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #139 vs #372 in 2025
• Sebastian#16“august, venerable, exalted”^*
• Simon#230“sixpence coin”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Sumayyah’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.