Masculine dossier · first seen 1880

Sumner

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Sumner
Creator: Social Security Administration

Stable Cross-generational persistence

Peak era

1920

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Greatest Generation

1880Peak 19202024

Peak year

1920

Decline from peak

80%

2024

All-time

2,427

Sumner has avoided the sharper boom-and-bust cycles of fashion naming. Its strength is not novelty but endurance: steady recognition across eras, families, and classrooms.

Your name peaked in 1920, when 65 boys were named Sumner.

In 2024, only 13 boys were given the name.

Down 80% from its peak.

All told, about 2,427 Americans have been named Sumner and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityEra-bound, still legible

TrajectoryCross-generational persistence

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