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Sumaiyah

Gender
Girl
Say it
soo-MY-ya
Origin
Arabic
UK rank, 2025
#2,675 for girls
US rank, 2025
#14,937 for girls

Sumaiyah is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,675th for girls in the UK (10 babies) and 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

What does Sumaiyah mean?

Arabic: spelling of Sumaiya, itself a spelling of Sumayya

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

Meaning borrowed from Sumaiya.

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

Sumaiyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the UK and 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Sumaiyah in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#2,675among girls
Babies in 2025
10about 1 in 28,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 29% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 10 girls in the UK were named Sumaiyah, making it the 2,675th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 44 girls.

Half of all the girls named Sumaiyah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2002 and 2013. 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 Sumaiyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #846, up from #2,675 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 2,603rd in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 44 in 20132025
Sumaiyah in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202510#2,675
202412#2,323
20230–
202214#2,052
202114#2,069
20205#4,110
201911#2,420
201815#2,000
201719#1,711
201622#1,552
201519#1,684
201427#1,302
201344#915
201226#1,346
201130#1,190
201027#1,262
200932#1,062
200834#1,002
200728#1,117
200629#1,035
200526#1,048
200427#1,006
200330#916
200228#904
200130#857
200033#772
199926#923
199826#922
199716#1,278
199615#1,309

How popular is Sumaiyah in the US?

Rank in 2025
#14,937among girls
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 320,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Sumaiyah, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 21 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.

Half of all the girls named Sumaiyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 66 girls in the US were given Sumaiyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,217, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.

1996Busiest: 21 in 20102025
Sumaiyah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
202411#8,941
20235#15,188
20220–
20219#10,287
20206#13,448
20190–
20180–
20178#11,611
20167#12,871
20159#10,861
201417#6,985
201310#10,230
201213#8,628
201111#9,719
201021#6,180
200920#6,541
200817#7,404
200716#7,729
200616#7,480
200511#9,447
200418#6,484
200314#7,575
200215#7,039
200116#6,614
20009#9,867
199916#6,185
199813#7,099
199710#8,329
19966#11,801

Names like Sumaiyah

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

Other spellings of Sumaiyah

Names related to Sumaiyah

More Arabic names

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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, “Sumaiyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sumaiyah, updated 20 October 2026.