Sommer

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 24 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
24
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Sommer by the numbers

Sommer was given to 24 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 464 babies in 1977, so it is a 1970s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Sommer

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Sommer. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Summerthe warm season of the year429 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Somer6 in the US (2017)
  • Sumnersummoner; one who summons11 in the US (2017)
  • Sumersummer; a form of Summer6 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Sommer

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