Summit
Masculine · “highest point”
Summit is given to both — 1,024 boys and 247 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Summit is the highest point, and the Latin behind it is summus — the same superlative that gives sum, summary and consummate, all of them about reaching a top.
How old is the name Summit?
Summit first appears in US birth records in 1999 — 26 years ago. The typical Summit is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,000 people named Summit are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Summit most popular?
Summit peaked in 2025, reaching #1520 nationally. Today it ranks #1520, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From summus to Summit
The story of Summit
Word-names taken from landscape and achievement rose together in American naming from the 2000s — Everest, Ridge, Canyon, Summit, Legend, Justice. Summit is among the newer members, appearing in the American registers in the 2010s and rising through the decade. It is a word-name rather than a name with a history behind it.
Meaning
highest point, peak
From the Old French somete and the Latin summus, 'highest', the superlative of superus. The word gives sum — a total being the top of a column of figures, written upward in Roman practice — and summary. The English noun is ordinary and the meaning transparent.
How the name formed
- summus
- somete
- summit
- Summit
Related forms: Sommet · Summitt
Pronouncing Summit
SUM-it
Two syllables, stress on the first. It is a homophone of the ordinary English noun.
Nicknames for Summit
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1999
- Most boys named
- 2025114 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1520reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +28.1%114 in 2025, from 89
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Summit in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Sommet in French — related form
- Summitt in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Utah, California.
Summits among us
people named Summit are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 14,983 born in 2025 was named Summit
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Anastasios test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Summit's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Anastasios climbed just as high around 1974, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Anastasios's path sketches the road Summit is walking now.
Summit is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Summit is headed
Summit should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Summit beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Summit in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is concrete, transparent and aspirational without being vague.
- The connection to sum and summary is a genuinely good piece of word history.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- It is an ordinary English noun and never reads as purely a name.
- It is very new and has almost no record behind it.
- It is close in sound to 'summon' and to the verb 'sum it'.
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Masculine · #1520 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Summits are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Summit are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Summit in 2025?
- Summit ranks #1520 among US boy names in 2025, with 114 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Summit?
- About 1 in every 14,983 US boys born in 2025 was named Summit — 114 in all.
- Will my child share the name Summit with classmates?
- Summit will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Summit
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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