Sumit

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sumit is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the most common surname. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • JMJamaica1 in 54◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 132
  • AUAustralia1 in 133

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.6M ●

across 12 countries

#40 ●

of 21M surnames

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
632 ●

25M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 136 ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

SmithLatin · English●27M records
สุมิตรThai · Thai●12K records
СмитCyrillic · Russian●2.8K records
সুমিতBengali · Bangla●751 records
스미스Hangul · Korean●4 records
ᲡმითიGeorgian · Georgian●1 records
ΣμίτGreek · Greek●0 records

Locally spelled Smith in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 19 more, Smit in NL Netherlands, AR Argentina, ES Spain, สุมิตร in TH Thailand and Samat in MY Malaysia.

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.

Where Sumit is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#12,442,97721M rec.1 in 1362.4MSmith632
GB United Kingdom#11,768,1731.5M rec.—listedSmith351
AU Australia#1633,424592K rec.—1Smith356
CA Canada#1470,719458K rec.—3Smith301
IT Italy#2116,052118K rec.—1Smith132
ZA South Africa#6107,665104K rec.——Smith186
JM Jamaica#388,07042K rec.——Smith62
DE Germany#5384,49283K rec.—listedSmith197
RU Russia—60,02760K rec.—#3,132Smith121
NZ New Zealand#153,60545K rec.——Smith180
IE Ireland#248,31947K rec.——Smith165
TH Thailand#36243,80433K rec.—#175,354สุมิตร157

Roughly 2.4M people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 136). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi1.6M88%
  • 62K3%
  • English40K2%
  • Bangla29K2%
  • Urdu16K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi1,637,58888%
61,7943%
English40,2662%
Bangla28,6412%
Urdu15,8981%

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◐

Sumit is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name52K records spelled Sumit19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sümït, Šümit, Śùmìť, Sûmît, Śųmíț

  • Russian given name1.5K records spelled Sumit22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Сумит, Sumeet, Суміт, Шумит, Šûmît

  • Danish given name877 records spelled Sumit6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Denmark, Norway, United States

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Sümït

  • Czech given name264 records spelled Sumit11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Czechia, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Šûmïț, Śûmîť, Śûmíť, Šúmíţ, Šûmíţ

33 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●

Sumit is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, third-person singular present active indicative of sūmō

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In kxd, moustache (hair on upper lip)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In iba, moustache

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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●

05K10K15K20K19001920194019601980200018K · 1993

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Sumit in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1898–2017
Yearrecords
18981
189911
19003
19011
19165
19171
19188
19194
192033
192112
192218
1923101
192439
192520
19264
19271
19284
19297
19301
193111
19326
19335
19347
19359
19369
19374
19388
193912
19408
19416
194217
194313
194420
194524
194625
194725
194819
194924
195024
195135
195227
195319
195428
195544
195635
195756
195852
195964
196066
196163
196269
196389
196488
196590
1966120
1967133
1968364
1969166
1970252
1971269
1972397
1973484
1974623
1975741
19761,167
19771,084
19781,447
19791,865
19801,903
19813,048
19824,155
19834,935
19846,281
19856,535
19866,435
19879,626
198810,432
198911,424
199012,818
199114,039
199216,393
199317,967
199415,927
199515,052
19969,173
19978,460
19985,924
1999631
200010
20018
20022
20077
2008237
20091
2010122
20115
20124
201313
20141,293
2015363
20172

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 101 years between 1898–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Sumit Bhaduri, b. 1948Sumit Joshi, b. 1962Sumit Chowdhury, b. 1969Sumit Agarwal, b. 1970Sumit Nijhawan, b. 1978Sumit Vats, b. 1981Sumit Gulati, b. 1990Sumit Kumar, b. 1995Sumit Nagal, b. 1997Sumit Antil, b. 1998

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●

Attested in 33 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Sumit
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199318K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199216K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199416K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199515K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199114K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199013K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198911K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198810K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19879.6K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19969.2K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19978.5K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19856.5K—

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 · 282 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sumit?
We estimate roughly 2.6 million people bear Sumit (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Sumit have the most bearers?
We estimate about 2.4 million people bear Sumit in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled smith.
How common is Sumit compared with other names?
In the United States, Sumit is the most common surname of 7,257,200 surnames recorded there.
Is Sumit a male or female name?
Sumit is a male 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 page Mondonomo, “Sumit” — the most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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