Sumer
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ancient kingdom, Asia
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/suːməɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sumer is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 171Kas Somer(measured from records)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 69K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 87K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sumer itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)
1,941 named Somer, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
ancient kingdom, Asia
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sumer counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,941as Somer | 1 in 171K | 1.9K | Sumer | 122 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 301K | — | Sumer | 12 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Sumer | 19 |
| EG Egypt | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 563K | — | Sumer | 11 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Sumer | 8 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Sumer | 10 |
| SY Syria | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 297K | — | Sumer | 8 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Sumer | 6 |
| SE Sweden | 15 | 1 in 680K | 15 | — | 3 |
1,941 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling somer. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sumer is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, Sumer (a historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #9,995 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 119 | #9,995 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 15 | #29,141 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sumer mean, and where does it come from?
- ancient kingdom, Asia Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Sumer?
- A machine transcription gives /suːməɹ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Sumer a male or female name?
- Sumer is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sumer have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Somer, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sumer?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 15 people named Sumer, about 1 in 680 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sumer?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sumerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sumer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.