Entry № 10116 · English origin

Summer Summer — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SUM-er /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"The season"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern as given name

A name that means "the season".

Summer is the English word for the warm season — from the Old English sumor, with cognates across all Germanic languages.

Today it sits in the U.S.

The season. A word, used as a name.

The name in its native script.

Summer
Transliteration
Summer
Pronunciation
/ ˈsʌm.ər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Summer stands.

Summer 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.

Summers before her.

Real people
Summer Glau
American actress, Firefly and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
born 1981
In fiction
Summer Roberts
Character in the TV series The O.C.
Fox, 2003–2007

Names connected to Summer.

The number behind Summer.

8

The Visionary

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