Seneca

Where Seneca comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Seneca.

  • Vowel-ended
Seneca through the years
  1. 1715
    Seneca Inggersen born
    German pharmacist
  2. 1956
    First appearance
    #3,910 among girls with 10 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1980
    Seneca Wallace born
    American football player
  4. 1980
    Peak, #2,043
    51 babies named Seneca, its best rank.
  5. 1983
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #3,431.
  6. 2020
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Seneca Wallace · American football player, born 1980
  • Seneca Inggersen · German pharmacist, 1715–1786

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.