# Summers (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/summers/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 56,953 |
| US rank (2010) | 591 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 5,421 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.8% (55,391 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Summers in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 79% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 15% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.1% |
| Two or more races | 2.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Summers in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia.

## People named Summers

- Lawrence Summers, American economist and government official (born 1954)
- DaJuan Summers, American basketball player (born 1988)
- Angela Summers, American pornographic actress
- Sarah Rose Summers, American beauty pageant titleholder
- Yale Summers, actor from the United States (1933-2012)
- Hope Summers, American actress (1896–1979)
- Kennedy Summers, American model (born 1987)
- Tara Summers, British actress
- Anne Summers, Australian journalist, memoirist and nonfiction writer
- Chris Summers, American ice hockey player
- Kristal Summers, American pornographic actress
- Gene Summers, American rock musician (1939–2021)

and 2 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Sommers, Somers, Simmers, Summerhays, Siemers, Somerset.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.