Summaya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- soo-MAY-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Summaya is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “high, exalted”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Summaya mean?
Arabic: spelling of Sumayyah
“high, exalted”
Sumayyah bint Khayyat, mother of Ammar ibn Yasir, is honoured in Islamic tradition as the first martyr of Islam.
Meaning borrowed from Sumayyah.
Is Summaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Summaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Summaya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fastdown 63% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Summaya, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 17 girls.
Half of all the girls named Summaya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 129 girls in the UK were given Summaya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #371, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Summaya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 7 | #3,340 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 16 | #1,941 |
| 2015 | 8 | #3,114 |
| 2014 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2013 | 14 | #2,061 |
| 2012 | 9 | #2,887 |
| 2011 | 8 | #3,041 |
| 2010 | 17 | #1,757 |
| 2009 | 15 | #1,848 |
| 2008 | 10 | #2,454 |
| 2007 | 11 | #2,198 |
| 2006 | 6 | #3,280 |
| 2005 | 6 | #3,133 |
| 2004 | 5 | #3,356 |
| 2003 | 5 | #3,233 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 3 | #3,991 |
Names like Summaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Safiya Aaliyah Zainab Safaa Ruqayyah Safia Hafsa Abeeha Rahma Aaminah Hiba
Other spellings of Summaya
Names related to Summaya
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Summaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/summaya, updated 20 October 2026.