Summer
given name · Latin script
Meaning: (i) from a medieval nickname for someone with a summery disposition or connection with summer; (ii) translation of Irish Gaelic O Samhraidh; (iii) different form of Sumner and Sumpter
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɐmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Summer is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 4.7K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 10K
- CACanada≈1 in 16K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 499 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) from a medieval nickname for someone with a summery disposition or connection with summer; (ii) translation of Irish Gaelic O Samhraidh; (iii) different form of Sumner and Sumpter.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Summer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Summer | 58 |
| US United States | — | 70,693 | 1 in 4.7K | 70K | Summer | 499 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 44 | Summer | 185 |
| AU Australia | #987 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 295 | Summer | 150 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 32 | Summer | 158 |
| SG Singapore | #889 | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Summer | 48 |
| NZ New Zealand | #673 | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 36 | Summer | 78 |
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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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)
Summer is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, probably from OFr somier ‘sumpter’; first attested Adam, Geoffrey Sumer 1203, 1205 P (Ess, O)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, English common noun meaning “summer”; used as a given name in the U.S.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In English, One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as spanning the months of June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, after the season
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Nacida durante el verano
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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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kenya Mooreb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, model, author, and entrepreneur
- Summer Sandersb. 1972USAmerican sports commentator, reporter, television personality, actress and former competition swimmer
- Summer Phoenixb. 1978USAmerican actress
- Summer Alticeb. 1979USAmerican fashion model and actress
- Summer Glaub. 1981USAmerican actress
- Summer Leeb. 1987USAmerican politician (born 1987)
- Summer Bishilb. 1988USactress
- Ella Purnellb. 1996GBnot in their usual nameEnglish-born British actress (born 1996)
- Summer Walkerb. 1996USAmerican R&B singer
- Summer McIntoshb. 2006CACanadian swimmer (2006-)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
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 72 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 70K | #723 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 2K | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2023 | 295 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 248 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 212 | #723 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2025 | 93 | #52 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2025 | 93 | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2025 | 79 | #89 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 44 | #96 |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2025 | 36 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 32 | #117 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2025 | 27 | #59 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Is Summer a male or female name?
- Summer is a female 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.
- What does the name Summer mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) from a medieval nickname for someone with a summery disposition or connection with summer; (ii) translation of Irish Gaelic O Samhraidh; (iii) different form of Sumner and Sumpter. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How common is the name Summer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 70,693 people named Summer in 2020, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Summer compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Summer is the 673rd most common given name of 26,737 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Summer?
- A machine transcription gives /sɐmə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Summer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 211 thousand people named Summer in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled summer.
- Where is Summer most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Summer is densest in the United States — about 1 in 4.7 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Summer?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/summerThe 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, “Summer” — the 673rd most common given name in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.