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Sumaiya

Gender
Girl
Say it
soo-MY-ya
Origin
Arabic
UK rank, 2025
#1,868 for girls
US rank, 2025
#6,837 for girls

Sumaiya is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 1,868th for girls in the UK (16 babies) and 6,837th for girls in the US (16 babies).

What does Sumaiya mean?

Arabic: spelling of Sumayya

A spelling of Sumayya; Sumayya bint Khayyat is honoured as the first martyr of Islam.

Is Sumaiya a girl's or a boy's name?

Sumaiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 girls in the UK and 16 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Sumaiya in the UK?

Rank in 2025
1,868th among girls
Babies in 2025
16 about 1 in 17,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 35% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 16 girls in the UK were named Sumaiya, making it the 1,868th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,431st. Its busiest year was 2007, with 59 girls.

Half of all the girls named Sumaiya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2014. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

In 2025, 40 girls in the UK were given Sumaiya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #846, up from #1,868 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 1,809th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 59 in 20072025
Sumaiya in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202516#1,868
202416#1,881
202312#2,329
202210#2,615
202111#2,478
202023#1,431
201926#1,332
201819#1,678
201728#1,284
201626#1,361
201535#1,085
201444#925
201344#915
201240#978
201150#798
201050#789
200957#707
200858#694
200759#655
200649#703
200545#735
200448#670
200338#766
200241#700
200135#768
200016#1,290
199928#861
199824#981
199714#1,387
199617#1,179

How popular is Sumaiya in the US?

Rank in 2025
6,837th among girls
Babies in 2025
16 about 1 in 100,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising up 30% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 16 girls in the US were named Sumaiya, making it the 6,837th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2007, with 30 girls. It first appears in the records in 1991.

Half of all the girls named Sumaiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 66 girls in the US were given Sumaiya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,217, up from #6,837 for this spelling alone.

1991Busiest: 30 in 20072025
Sumaiya in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202516#6,837
202426#5,018
202315#7,242
20228#11,225
202118#6,409
202012#8,401
201918#6,410
201814#7,758
201715#7,438
201614#7,985
201525#5,286
201428#4,890
201324#5,484
201220#6,338
201123#5,725
201021#6,180
200918#7,063
200815#8,105
200730#4,806
200624#5,544
200522#5,595
200427#4,812
200326#4,799
200225#4,763
200121#5,359
200014#7,152
19999#9,472
199814#6,714
19977#10,831
199616#5,766
19956#11,778
19940–
19936#11,773
19926#11,730
19915#13,139

Names like Sumaiya

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Sumaiya

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Sumaiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sumaiya, updated 20 October 2026.