Last Name SUMMER

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	The son of Summer. Just as ecclessiastical seasons gave us Noel Pentecost, Pask, Christman, etc, so several centuriesearler popular names for children were descriptive of the natural season in which the child was born, or even the state of the weather. Hence such personal names as Snow, Storm, Winter, Summer, Spring, etc. Such local names as Somerby, Somercoates, Somerford, Somersby, Somersham, Somerton, all implying that the first settler bore the name of Somer. So called, probably, from the season summer. The word is derived from the Saxon 'Sumer;' Celtic or Gaelic, 'samh,' the sun. 'Summer,' one who casts up an account. The name may be a corruption of 'Sumner.'

Origin	English, Jewish, Spanish, Irish, Hungarian

Rank	9,450 (2000 US census)	5,643 (1990 US census)

Count	3,157 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

87.11%, or 2750 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
8.68%, or 274 total occurrences, as black,
0.67%, or 21 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.86%, or 27 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.36%, or 43 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.33%, or 42 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Christian baby names

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Ukrainian middle names

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.