Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sumaiya is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 12th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bangla and English, written in the Latin script.
rarermore common
BDBangladesh1 in 203◐
TJTajikistan1 in 292
UZUzbekistan1 in 663
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Locally spelled Sumayain BR Brazil, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 10 more, Sumayyain IN India, UZ Uzbekistan, FR France and 4 more, Сумаяin KG Kyrgyzstan, TJ Tajikistan, RU Russia and 1 more and Сумаияin KZ Kazakhstan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
Bangla355K48%
English351K47%
Hindi26K4%
Sinhala4.7K1%
Swahili1.4K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name
Records
Note
Bangla
355,391
48%
English
350,522
47%
Hindi
26,420
4%
Sinhala
4,683
1%
Swahili
1,450
1%
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other names spelled this way◐
Sumaiya is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.
French given name200 records spelled Sumaiya3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom, India
Also written Sumaiyã, Sümaïya
Turkish given name48 records spelled Sumaiya5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United Kingdom, United States, India, Syria
Also written Sümaiya, Sumåîyå, Sümåïyä
37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.
Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.
Over time●
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Sumaiya in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1918–2015
Year
records
1918
1
1923
2
1925
3
1932
2
1935
1
1937
2
1940
1
1942
1
1946
2
1947
1
1948
2
1949
1
1950
3
1952
1
1953
1
1954
2
1955
2
1956
3
1957
2
1958
1
1959
4
1960
1
1961
5
1962
11
1963
3
1964
8
1965
2
1966
7
1967
13
1968
21
1969
18
1970
11
1971
18
1972
20
1973
15
1974
18
1975
32
1976
44
1977
39
1978
47
1979
54
1980
69
1981
78
1982
116
1983
132
1984
174
1985
155
1986
177
1987
230
1988
221
1989
283
1990
281
1991
343
1992
437
1993
485
1994
429
1995
364
1996
238
1997
235
1998
167
1999
15
2008
6
2010
4
2014
12
2015
23
INnaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 65 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020)
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PK Pakistan
Muslim given names (CC0)
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Reference works 1
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 210 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
How common is the name Sumaiya?
We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Sumaiya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Sumaiya have the most bearers?
Sumaiya is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled sumaiya.
How common is Sumaiya compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Sumaiya is the 12th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
Is Sumaiya a male or female name?
Sumaiya is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this pageMondonomo, “Sumaiya” — the 12th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.