Seaver

Peak · boys
1988 · 12 births
Debut · boys
12 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
135
since 1988

Seaver over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Seaver has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #3,915, 1988boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1997#9,2655
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1992#6,1288
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First appearance
1988

The first year at least five boys were named Seaver! It came in at #3,915, and was given to 12 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1990, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Seaver is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Seaver in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Seaver
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2017
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1988
  • Peaked 1988 at #3,915 (12 births)
  • Births halved by 1990, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 140,095
  • Highest: 1 in 140,095 boys born in 1993 were named Seaver (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 308,493 boys born in 2017 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #3,915 in 1988, was only 1 in 159,524 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 43.7% of all boys named Seaver (59) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s21#3,915 (1988)#4,540
1990s59#4,227 (1993)#6,680
2000s33#7,055 (2002)#9,685
2010s22#10,766 (2010)#11,441

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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