Sumaiya

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Sumaiya: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Sumaiya: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #604 in 2007, and it stood at #1,819 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#604highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1112
1997	#1287
1998	#898
1999	#794
2000	#1195
2001	#710
2002	#667
2003	#731
2004	#638
2005	#680
2006	#665
2007	#604
2008	#663
2009	#647
2010	#730
2011	#749
2012	#916
2013	#854
2014	#877
2015	#1033
2016	#1278
2017	#1219
2018	#1586
2019	#1252
2020	#1352
2021	#2341
2022	#2488
2023	#2201
2024	#1819

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

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What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1112 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #604 among girls in England and Wales, in 2007 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1819 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Sumaiya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Sumaiya in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	83	4 of 10	21
2000sbusiest	440	10 of 10	44
2010s	360	10 of 10	36
2020s	72	5 of 10	14

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 44 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Sumaiya appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #604 in England and Wales in 2007.

Sumaiya's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1819	16	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2488	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1352	23	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1252	26	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1586	19	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1219	28	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1278	26	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1033	34	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#877	43	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#854	44	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#916	40	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#749	50	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#730	50	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#647	57	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#663	56	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#604	59	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#665	47	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#680	45	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#638	47	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#731	38	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#667	40	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#710	35	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1195	16	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#794	28	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#898	24	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1287	14	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1112	17	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #604, first reached in 2007.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 59 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#1,819position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
59births registered in its largest year, 200750 to 99 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Sultana · #1434, 14y
Sumaira · #1646, 26y
Sumaiyah · #712, 28y
Sumaya · #291, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aaisha · #603, 29y
Ifan · #603, 27y
Suleman · #600, 29y
Tahmid · #600, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Felipe · #604, 30y
Ismael · #604, 29y
Ron · #604, 27y
Shaheer · #604, 26y

Sumaiya was ranked #604 in England and Wales · Girls in 2007. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Sumaiya and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Sumaiya without appearing here.

Sumaiya moved ahead of

Sinead Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2201 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1819 and #3695.
Tayla Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2201 and #1774 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1819 and #3318.
Sandra Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2201 and #1525 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1819 and #2771.
Wendy Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2201 and #1863 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1819 and #2771.

Moved ahead of Sumaiya

Clodagh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1352 and #1397 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #1195.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1352 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #1286.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #749 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #916 and #284.
Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1033 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1278 and #768.

Moved the opposite way to Sumaiya

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sumaiya went from #1112 to #1819 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sumaiya went from #1112 to #1819 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sumaiya went from #1112 to #1819 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sumaiya went from #1112 to #1819 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Sumaiya

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sumaiya went from #1112 to #1819 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sumaiya went from #1112 to #1819 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sumaiya went from #1112 to #1819 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sumaiya went from #1112 to #1819 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #604 in England and Wales in 2007. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sumaiya

Sumaiya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sumaiya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Sumaiya at a glance

Sumaiya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Sumaiya and the names beside it

Sumaiya moved ahead of

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