Sekai
- #13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- #2,421 for boys in 2025, 56 births
- Given to boys 76.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 56 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 284since 2001
Sekai over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #2,421 | 56 |
| 2024 | — | #3,216 | 37 | |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #3,005 | 41 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #3,691 | 30 |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | — | #8,067 | 9 | |
| 2019 | — | #7,643 | 10 | |
| 2018 | — | — | ||
| 2017 | — | #7,546 | 10 | |
| 2016 | — | #8,146 | 9 | |
| 2015 | — | #12,086 | 5 | |
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| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | — | |
| 2012 | — | #10,770 | 6 | |
| 2011 | — | #10,808 | 6 | |
| 2010 | — | #9,693 | 7 | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | — | |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | — | |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #9,581 | 6 |
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| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sekai! It came in at #8,339, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2002, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Sekai is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#1,231 · 1 in 10,452
- North Carolina#1,277 · 1 in 10,294
- Florida#1,353 · 1 in 11,942
- New York#1,760 · 1 in 16,885
- Texas#2,574 · 1 in 35,010
Best ever in a state: #1,231 in Pennsylvania, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #1,231 | 5 | 1 in 10,452 |
| North Carolina | #1,277 | 5 | 1 in 10,294 |
| Florida | #1,353 | 8 | 1 in 11,942 |
| New York | #1,760 | 5 | 1 in 16,885 |
| Texas | #2,574 | 5 | 1 in 35,010 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Sekai
- 5,646 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #2,421)
- Debuted 2001
- Peaked 2025 at #2,421 (56 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 30,501 boys born in 2025 were named Sekai (0.00%)
- 65.1% of all boys named Sekai (185) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2014, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 2000s | 46 | #6,802 (2009) | #9,152 |
| 2010s | 53 | #7,546 (2017) | #9,527 |
| 2020s | 185 | #2,421 (2025) | #4,516 |
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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