Summer derives from the Old English word ‘sumor’, the name of the season. As a given name, it is in use since the 1970s.
Summer is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Summer isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Summer ranks 169. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 11 were named Summer. In the entire USA, approximately 83,604 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Summer. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
Summer derives from the Old English word ‘sumor’, the name of the season. As a given name, it is in use since the 1970s.
Did you know... that the astronomical season of summer lasts from 21 June to 23 September?
The name Summer may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Summer is apparently especially popular in Nevada. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 685 women in Nevada is called Summer. In total, that’s 652 women who feel addressed when the name Summer is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #192 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Summer as the answer a total of 83,569 times. This places Summer at #377 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Summer as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Summer is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Summer and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Summer, you can simply say:
Sun
Unicorn
Mouse
Mouse
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Summer
Summer
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
U
M
M
E
R
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
U
M
M
E
R
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Summer sounds like this:
