Sekani
#3,342 for girls in 2025, 46 births · #1,186 for boys in 2025, 173 births
Given to boys 82.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 252 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,333since 2001
Sekani 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 | #3,342 | 46 | #1,186 | 173 |
| 2024 | #4,893 | 27 | #1,224 | 164 |
| 2023 | #3,585 | 43 | #1,066 | 203 |
| 2022 | #4,108 | 35 | #1,191 | 168 |
| 2021 | #4,964 | 26 | #1,240 | 154 |
| 2020 | #3,546 | 42 | #1,033 | 197 |
| 2019 | #2,593 | 67 | #873 | 252 |
| 2018 | — | #6,703 | 12 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sekani! It came in at #10,556, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2001–2017, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Sekani is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Massachusetts#650 · 1 in 4,753
- North Carolina#659 · 1 in 3,926
- Oklahoma#704 · 1 in 3,591
- Maryland#708 · 1 in 4,158
- Michigan#757 · 1 in 4,774
Best ever in a state: #396 in South Carolina, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #650 | 6 | 1 in 4,753 |
| North Carolina | #659 | 13 | 1 in 3,926 |
| Oklahoma | #704 | 5 | 1 in 3,591 |
| Maryland | #708 | 6 | 1 in 4,158 |
| Michigan | #757 | 9 | 1 in 4,774 |
| Virginia | #776 | 8 | 1 in 4,888 |
| Georgia | #830 | 10 | 1 in 5,037 |
| Florida | #1,136 | 10 | 1 in 9,276 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,253 | 5 | 1 in 11,091 |
| Illinois | #1,296 | 5 | 1 in 10,781 |
| Texas | #1,588 | 10 | 1 in 17,112 |
| New York | #1,591 | 6 | 1 in 14,855 |
| California | #2,214 | 6 | 1 in 31,563 |
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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 Sekani
- 38 spots since 2024 (#1,224 → #1,186)
- 153 spots since 2020 (#1,033 → #1,186)
- Biggest jump: 5,830 spots in 2019 (#6,703 → #873)
- Biggest drop: 160 spots in 2020 (#873 → #1,033)
- Debuted 2001
- Peaked 2019 at #873 (252 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2019
- Highest: 1 in 7,120 boys born in 2019 were named Sekani (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,873 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 79.4% of all boys named Sekani (1,059) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 2000s | 10 | #10,556 (2001) | #11,306 |
| 2010s | 264 | #873 (2019) | #3,788 |
| 2020s | 1,059 | #1,033 (2020) | #1,157 |
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.
Sekani in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 63,110 of them was named Sekani, which outranked 71.9% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,833Zooey27
- #4,833Zophia27
- #4,833Zyaire27
- #4,964Sekani26
- #4,964Adaia26
- #4,964Adaiah26
- #4,964Ailey26
- #5,091Aara25
- #5,091Aarika25
- #5,091Aerin25
Tied with 126 names at #4,964; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 11,360 of them was named Sekani, which outranked 91.2% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,237Giannis155
- #1,237Jethro155
- #1,237Krish155
- #1,240Sekani154
- #1,240Brent154
- #1,240Payton154
- #1,240Skylar154
- #1,245Aksel153
- #1,245Cedar153
- #1,245Isa153
Tied with 4 names at #1,240; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.