Sumner
Recorded 1880–2025 · United States
Sumner was most popular in 1920, when 65 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,691 that year. In 2025 it ranked #9,389, with 23 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,662 people named Sumner.
Sumner over time
How old is the name Sumner?
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Sumner is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 135 of the 146 years since.
How many people are named Sumner?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,662 American births named Sumner between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,164 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Sumner in 2025?
23 American babies were named Sumner in 2025, ranking #9,389 that year.
Is Sumner getting more or less popular?
Sumner is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 17 births a year across 2021–2025 against 16 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Sumner a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Sumner is mostly a boy’s name — 8.2% of the 2,662 Americans given it were girls and 91.8% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 18% girls and 82% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Sumner?
Roughly 1,164 Americans named Sumner are alive today — 44% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 30 years old, and half are between 19 and 55. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Sumner is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org