Sumeya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- soo-MAY-yah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Sumeya is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “high, exalted”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Sumeya mean?
Arabic: variant of Sumayya (Sumayyah)
“high, exalted”
Sumayya bint Khayyat is regarded as the first martyr in Islam.
Is Sumeya a girl's or a boy's name?
Sumeya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sumeya in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 19 girls.
Half of all the girls named Sumeya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
Sumeya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 7 | #3,340 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 8 | #3,114 |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 6 | #3,881 |
| 2011 | 7 | #3,360 |
| 2010 | 15 | #1,912 |
| 2009 | 7 | #3,201 |
| 2008 | 15 | #1,840 |
| 2007 | 19 | #1,477 |
| 2006 | 15 | #1,681 |
| 2005 | 6 | #3,133 |
| 2004 | 15 | #1,561 |
| 2003 | 11 | #1,831 |
| 2002 | 6 | #2,691 |
| 2001 | 6 | #2,587 |
| 2000 | 6 | #2,554 |
| 1999 | 4 | #3,374 |
| 1998 | 9 | #1,951 |
How popular is Sumeya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Sumeya, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.
Half of all the girls named Sumeya in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Sumeya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,527 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,633 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,744 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,115 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,877 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,234 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,447 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,438 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,013 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
Names like Sumeya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Aaliyah, Sumayyah, Safiya, Zainab, Hafsa, Safaa, Abeeha, Amira, Safia, Khadija, Hiba
Names related to Sumeya
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
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, “Sumeya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sumeya, updated 20 October 2026.