Sumaya

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Sumayya in IN India, UZ Uzbekistan, FR France and 4 more, Sumaiya in BD Bangladesh, AU Australia, AE United Arab Emirates and 1 more, Сумая in KG Kyrgyzstan, TJ Tajikistan, RU Russia and 1 more and Сумаия in 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●

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Sumaya is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name1.4K records spelled Sumaya3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, South Africa, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Sûmaya

• Turkish given name1.1K records spelled Sumaya3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Iraq, Azerbaijan

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

  Also written Sümaya

• a separate given name396 records spelled Sumaya2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ethiopia, India, Iraq

  Also written Sumáya

38 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.

Other recorded senses●

Sumaya is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Arabic, diminutive of Samia; high

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In German, weibl. Vom. arabischer Herkunft,

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Arabic, diminutive of Saamia ils, high. Sumayya bint Khubbat: a sahaabia who "was the first to be martyred in Islam." See Saamia

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Filipino, a surname of native origin, most notably borne by

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 41 years between 1969–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Sumayyah bint Khayyatb. 550SAnot in their usual namecompanion (Sahabiyyah) of Muhammad
• Sumaya Awadb. 1901USPalestinian American writer and activist
• Sumaya Farhat Naserb. 1948PSPalestinian peace activist
• Sumayyah El-Alfyb. 1961EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian writer
• Soumia Benkhaldounb. 1963MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan politician
• Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan of Jordanb. 1971JOJordanian Royal
• Sumaya Kazib. 1982USAmerican entrepreneur
• Sumaya Al Nasserb. 1982SASaudi Arabian lifestyle coach
• Sumaya Dalmarb. 1988CASomali-Canadian trans activist
• Sumaya Komuntaleb. 2003UGUgandan footballer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 481 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sumaya?

We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Sumaya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Sumaya have the most bearers?

Sumaya is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled sumaiya.

How common is Sumaya compared with other names?

In Bangladesh, Sumaya is the 12th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.

Is Sumaya a male or female name?

Sumaya 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.

What does the name Sumaya mean?

Recorded meaning: Sumaya (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn, en diminutivform till → Samia.