Summer

What Summer means

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

Editor’s note Up from #193 in 2015 to #151 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Summer?

US: Rising: up from #193 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #66 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1977, when 2,447 girls got the name (#119 that year). First in the US records in 1949.

How common

• About 1 in 815 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 590 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 293 baby girls in Scotland 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 VT (5.13 per 1,000 girls), RI (4.08 per 1,000 girls), NH (3.69 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Summer is #151 in the US and #109 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 Summer were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Sommer27 US
• Sumer7 US
• Somer5 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 Summer

Girls

• Daisy#75From the word “daisy”^*
• Autumn#88Editor’s note Down from #69 in 2015 to #88 in 2025 in the US
• Jade#95Editor’s note Up from #126 in 2015 to #95 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 600 US girls in the 2025 records
• Hope#352Editor’s note Down from #225 in 2015 to #352 in 2025 in the US
• Grace#38From the word “grace”^*
• Heaven#543Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #543 vs #1,133 in 2025

For a brother

• Chance#442Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1996, with 2,243 babies; 711 in 2025
• Angel#67Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #67 vs #1,307 in 2025
• Tate#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #420 in 2015, #193 in 2025
• Ocean#717“sea”^*
• Aspen#920Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1990, with 8 babies
• Sage#455“sedge”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Summer’s. Rank is US 2025.