Entry № 10106 · Arabic origin

Sumaya Sumaya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ soo-MAH-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Iconic first martyr of Islam (Sumayyah bint Khabbat)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "iconic first martyr of islam (sumayyah bint khabbat)".

Sumaya is from the Arabic Sumayya (سمية — elevated, exalted, proud). Sumayyah bint Khabbat (d. Sumaya Genç — Turkish handball player. Sumaya Mukhtar — Sudanese-American figure. Princess Sumaya — Arab-Muslim royal heritage naming.

First martyr of Islam (Arabic).

The name in its native script.

سمية
Transliteration
Sumayya
Pronunciation
/ suːˈmɑː.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sumaya stands.

Sumaya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sumayas before her.

Real people
Sumayyah bint Khabbat
First martyr of Islam.
d. 615 CE
Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan
Jordanian princess + RSS President.
born 1971
In fiction
Sumaya
Iconic Islamic feminine heritage.

Names connected to Sumaya.

The number behind Sumaya.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sumaya reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.