Sumaia
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/sumɐjɐ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Sumaia is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 89th most common given name.
- BRBrazil1 in 158K(measured from records)
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 180K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 430as Sumaiya
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 Sumaia 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 174 (measured from records)
- 1 in 158K (inferred from the name graph)
≈400,000 named Sumaiya, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sumayya in IN India, NG Nigeria, PK Pakistan, Sumaiya in BD Bangladesh, SA Saudi Arabia, AE United Arab Emirates, Сумайя in KZ Kazakhstan and Сумая in TJ Tajikistan.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sumaia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #89 | ≈400,000 est. | ≈1 in 434 | 1 | Sumaiya | 86 |
| IN India | — | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 49 | Sumayya | 105 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Sumayya | 35 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 24K | listed | Sumayya | 32 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #50 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 3K | Сумая | 5 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #808 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Sumaiya | 50 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Sumaiya | 38 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | 2K | Сумайя | 18 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,343 | 1 in 158K | 1.6K | Sumaya | 64 |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Bureau of National Statistics — names tool (monthly birth registrations 2010–2026); Ministry of Justice — most popular newborn names; Page provides top names for Bangladesh published by Students of the World.; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). 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).
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.6K | #3,312 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.5K | #7,021 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #6,785 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 945 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 585 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 360 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 298 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 287 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 204 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Sumaia?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /sumɐjɐ/; in Turkish /sumaia/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Sumaia a male or female name?
- Sumaia is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Sumaia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 400 thousand people named Sumaiya in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sumaia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sumaia is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 158 thousand people — even though Bangladesh holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sumaia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,343 people named Sumaia in 2022, about 1 in 158 thousand residents.
- How common is Sumaia compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Sumaia is the 89th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sumaia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sumaiaThe 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, “Sumaia” — the 89th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.