Sumayyah

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Sumayyah: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #398 in 2003, and it stood at #497 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#398highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#891
1997	#750
1998	#737
1999	#508
2000	#436
2001	#466
2002	#421
2003	#398
2004	#453
2005	#427
2006	#452
2007	#475
2008	#475
2009	#438
2010	#516
2011	#557
2012	#516
2013	#542
2014	#478
2015	#449
2016	#485
2017	#526
2018	#560
2019	#554
2020	#559
2021	#521
2022	#534
2023	#510
2024	#497

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

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What the data shows

RisingEngland 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 #891 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: #398 among girls in England and Wales, in 2003 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #497 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Sumayyah 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 Sumayyah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	143	4 of 10	36
2000sbusiest	816	10 of 10	82
2010s	816	10 of 10	82
2020s	377	5 of 10	75

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 82 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1998 and 1999, when recorded births rose by 26, from 31 to 57.

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

Sumayyah 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: #398 in England and Wales in 2003.

Sumayyah'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	#497	79	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#510	77	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#534	73	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#521	78	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#559	70	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#554	73	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#560	74	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#526	82	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#485	89	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#449	96	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#478	90	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#542	77	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#516	83	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#557	74	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#516	78	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#438	95	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#475	84	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#475	83	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#452	86	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#427	87	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#453	77	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#398	91	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#421	77	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#466	65	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#436	71	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#508	57	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#737	31	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#750	31	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#891	24	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 #398, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 96 births, registered in England and Wales in 2015.

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 →
#497position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
96births registered in its largest year, 201550 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.

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Summaya · #1653, 22y
Summayah · #2112, 25y

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.

Cavan · #398, 28y
Haaris · #398, 29y
Tyler-James · #398, 27y
Aneesa · #397, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Allanah · #398, 26y
Arjan · #398, 29y
Boston · #398, 24y
Cavan · #398, 28y

Sumayyah was ranked #398 in England and Wales · Girls in 2003. 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.

Sumayyah 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 Sumayyah without appearing here.

Sumayyah moved ahead of

Denise Compare
In 1998 they stood at #737 and #664 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #508 and #1216.
Tracey Compare
In 1996 they stood at #891 and #783 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #750 and #1450.
Sofie Compare
In 1998 they stood at #737 and #701 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #508 and #1018.
Shania Compare
In 2013 they stood at #542 and #536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #478 and #907.

Moved ahead of Sumayyah

Sienna Compare
In 2003 they stood at #398 and #427 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #453 and #155.
Mila Compare
In 2010 they stood at #516 and #616 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #557 and #261.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #557 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #516 and #284.
Aria Compare
In 2011 they stood at #557 and #615 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #516 and #294.

Moved the opposite way to Sumayyah

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sumayyah went from #891 to #497 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sumayyah went from #891 to #497 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sumayyah went from #891 to #497 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sumayyah went from #891 to #497 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Sumayyah

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sumayyah went from #891 to #497 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sumayyah went from #891 to #497 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sumayyah went from #891 to #497 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sumayyah went from #891 to #497 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

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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: #398 in England and Wales in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sumayyah

Sumayyah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sumayyah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Sumayyah appears in

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Sumayyah at a glance

Sumayyah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Sumayyah appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Sumayyah

Sumayyah and the names beside it

Sumayyah moved ahead of

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