Seema
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · girls
- 1981 · 56 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,192since 1966
Seema over time
Rank among girls' names. Seema has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 |
| 2003 | #6,885 | 16 |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 |
| 1998 | #4,796 | 22 |
| 1997 | #5,228 | 19 |
| 1996 | #6,064 | 15 |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 |
| 1993 | #4,257 | 24 |
| 1992 | #4,236 | 24 |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 |
| 1989 | #4,020 | 24 |
| 1988 | #3,306 | 29 |
| 1987 | #3,624 | 24 |
| 1986 | #2,682 | 36 |
| 1985 | #3,170 | 28 |
| 1984 | #2,625 | 35 |
| 1983 | #2,360 | 40 |
| 1982 | #2,327 | 42 |
| 1981 | #1,912 | 56 |
| 1980 | #2,128 | 48 |
| 1979 | #2,050 | 49 |
| 1978 | #1,915 | 51 |
| 1977 | #2,189 | 42 |
| 1976 | #1,996 | 44 |
| 1975 | #2,811 | 26 |
| 1974 | #2,497 | 30 |
| 1973 | #2,629 | 27 |
| 1972 | #3,276 | 19 |
| 1971 | #2,955 | 23 |
| 1970 | #2,938 | 23 |
| 1969 | #3,619 | 15 |
| 1968 | #4,000 | 12 |
| 1967 | #3,211 | 16 |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Seema! It came in at #5,809, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2021, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Seema is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,132 · 1 in 12,373
- Illinois#1,255 · 1 in 15,030
- New York#1,276 · 1 in 14,476
- California#2,056 · 1 in 30,215
Best ever in a state: #490 in Maryland, 1978.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #1,132 | 10 | 1 in 12,373 |
| Illinois | #1,255 | 5 | 1 in 15,030 |
| New York | #1,276 | 7 | 1 in 14,476 |
| California | #2,056 | 6 | 1 in 30,215 |
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See more about Seema
- 1,161 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #10,107)
- 3,346 spots since 2020 (#13,453 → #10,107)
- 1,660 spots since 2015 (#8,447 → #10,107)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 1981 at #1,912 (56 births)
- Births halved by 1985, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 29,787 girls born in 1981 were named Seema (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 30.4% of all girls named Seema (362) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 49 | #3,211 (1967) | #4,160 |
| 1970s | 334 | #1,915 (1978) | #2,526 |
| 1980s | 362 | #1,912 (1981) | #2,815 |
| 1990s | 180 | #4,236 (1992) | #5,480 |
| 2000s | 124 | #6,067 (2001) | #8,974 |
| 2010s | 96 | #8,135 (2013) | #10,965 |
| 2020s | 47 | #8,542 (2022) | #10,272 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Seema in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 29,787 of them was named Seema, which outranked 84.3% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,887Tomi57
- #1,887Tommie57
- #1,887Xochitl57
- #1,912Seema56
- #1,912Aliza56
- #1,912America56
- #1,912Annabel56
- #1,935Alexandrea55
- #1,935Andre55
- #1,935Annabelle55
Tied with 22 names at #1,912; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.