Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Sumio isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sumio through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 17
- 17 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1925. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sumio’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Sumio is a Roman-alphabet rendering of すみお. In Japanese usage, Sumio is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 澄夫. In Japanese usage, Sumio is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 澄男.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 6
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sumio
- Sumio IijimaJapanese physicist, chemist, and nanotechnologist (born 1939)
- Sumio EndoJapanese judokaborn 1950
- Sumio MabuchiJapanese politicianborn 1960
- Sumio ShiratoriJapanese composerborn 1950
- Sumio HirotaJapanese baseball playerborn 1949
- Chosei KawakamiJapanese painter (1895-1972)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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