How popular is the name Summer?

Summer ranks 368th among girls' names in US records, with 98,227 births since 1949. Over the past decade it accounts for 18,008.

Is Summer a unisex name?

No. Summer is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1998, when 2,819 children were given the name. It has been in use for 76 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#368 of girl names

Pronounced S AH1 M ER0 (ARPABET)

Summer is a girls' name, and first appears in 1949. It has been given to 98,227 children — the 368th most common girls' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 1998, when 2,819 children were given it.

1998Girls: 2,819Boys: 0

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Summer?: Summer ranks 368th among girls' names in US records, with 98,227 births since 1949. Over the past decade it accounts for 18,008.
Is Summer a unisex name?: No. Summer is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Summer most popular?: 1998, when 2,819 children were given the name. It has been in use for 76 years and is still recorded as of 2024.