girls:
87.2k births since 1949
#403 (93rd percentile)
boys:
246 births since 1918
#4340 (5th percentile)
overall:
87.5k births since 1918
#742 (90th percentile)
The name Summer is the #742 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 87,477 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 90.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #403 (93.0% percentile) for all time with 87,231 births since 1949. For boys, it ranks #4,340 (5.3% percentile) for all time with 246 births since 1918.
Summer first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (1918 for boys and 1949 for girls). Birth data for Summer is available in 74 out of the 106 years between 1918 and 2023 (73 years for girls and 27 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Summer has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1949, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1918 to 1948), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (99.7% girls from 1949 to 2023).
For girls, Summer reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 85.6% percentile (ranked #136) with 1,093 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 1,488 births per million (ranked 84.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Summer ranks #138 for girls (85.5% percentile) with 1,121 births per million, which is 75.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Summer reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #824) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Summer".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Summer is pronounced as SUH-mer, which has 2 syllables.
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