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Girl · Old English
Summer
Say it: SUM-er
Meaning
From the English word for the season, Old English sumor.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A 20th-century nature name, steadily used in the US since the 1970s.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 1970s
In the United States
- 81,626 babies given this name since 1918
- At its height in 1977, about 1 in 627 girls
- 1,804 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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