Sumner
Sumner is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 553rd, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192065 births
- Best rank
- #553in 1883
- Since 1880
- 2,639people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,427 boys have been named Sumner in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 65 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 212 girls have also been given it, 8.0% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Sumner | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 77 | |
| 1890s | 43 | |
| 1900s | 50 | |
| 1910s | 339 | |
| 1920s | 570 | |
| 1930s | 269 | |
| 1940s | 218 | |
| 1950s | 122 | |
| 1960s | 67 | |
| 1970s | 46 | |
| 1980s | 70 | |
| 1990s | 200 | |
| 2000s | 170 | |
| 2010s | 125 | |
| 2020s | 61 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Sumner was the 843rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Sumner
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Arlingtonpeak 1917
- Wilberpeak 1919
- Mertonpeak 1920
- Gilespeak 1918
- Willispeak 1924
- Irvinpeak 1923
- Harmonpeak 1921
- Lewispeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.