Sumlin
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sumlin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 161K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 161K (inferred from the name graph)
2,070 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Самлин in RU Russia.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sumlin 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 | 2,070 | 1 in 161K | 2.1K | Sumlin | 8 |
| RU Russia | — | — | — | Самлин | 7 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | — | 1 | — | — |
2,070 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hubert Sumlinb. 1931USAmerican Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer (1931-2011)
- Kevin Sumlinb. 1964USAmerican football player and coach (born 1964)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,434 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #15,086 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #14,823 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 1 | #35 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Sumlin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Sumlin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sumlin.
- Where is Sumlin most common?
- Sumlin is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 161 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sumlin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,070 people named Sumlin in 2010, about 1 in 161 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sumlin?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sumlinThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sumlin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.