Seneca

#4,265 for girls in 2025, 33 births · #5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
Given to girls 50.1% of the time

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Peak · girls
1980 · 51 births
Debut · girls
10 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,766
since 1956

Seneca over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201956peak #2,043, 1980peak #629, 1977girlsboys
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#4,26533#5,60816
2024#5,14825#4,70121
2023#4,99926#5,66616
2022#4,67129#4,85020
2021#3,93537#6,69812
2020#4,07834#5,23517
2019#7,34215#4,33723
2018#4,14434#4,22624
2017#5,19125#4,46622
2016#4,34533#3,59630
2015#4,29533#5,05818
2014#4,89228#4,70220
2013#4,75529#4,62120
2012#4,70730#7,05011
2011#4,56831#5,20017
2010#4,60831#3,81227
2009#3,94439#3,83127
2008#3,93640#3,92126
2007#3,91840#2,86841
2006#3,17652#3,15334
2005#3,73039#3,38929
2004#3,49042#3,28529
2003#3,23245#3,44326
2002#4,28029#2,94331
2001#3,48638#3,22827
2000#3,52737#2,92230
1999#4,08828#4,76214
1998#3,17339#4,19716
1997#3,10538#2,61330
1996#3,72329#3,83017
1995#2,42153#5,9289
1994#2,93540#4,80312
1993#3,77628#5,00211
1992#4,08825#6,1288
1991#3,93626#5,09610
1990#3,22734#3,77915
1989#4,35821#3,80914
1988#3,48327#3,91512
1987#4,85716#3,20115
1986#4,53917#2,09627
1985#3,32826#1,97529
1984#2,78132#1,55639
1983#3,43123#1,19058
1982#2,28843#1,21758
1981#2,34242#1,00282
1980#2,04351#718147
1979#2,47737#831110
1978#2,39037#778117
1977#2,25740#629179
1976#3,00224#803107
1975#4,14115#4,3097
1974#5,01111—
1973#6,0808—
1972#7,2926—
1971#6,6197—
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1956#3,91010—
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First appearance
1956

The first year at least five girls were named Seneca! It came in at #3,910, and was given to 10 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1961–1970, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Seneca is popular in 1956

No state had 5 or more girls named Seneca in 1956, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Seneca
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 883 spots since 2024 (#5,148 → #4,265)
  • 187 spots since 2020 (#4,078 → #4,265)
  • 30 spots since 2015 (#4,295 → #4,265)
Rise & fade · girls
24 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1956
  • Peaked 1980 at #2,043 (51 births)
  • Births halved by 1983, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 32,555
  • Highest: 1 in 32,555 girls born in 1980 were named Seneca (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 48,705 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 22.7% of all girls named Seneca (401) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2020
  • Mostly boys until 2019, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s48#2,218 (1957)#4,214
1960s21#3,095 (1960)#4,831
1970s185#2,257 (1977)#4,363
1980s298#2,043 (1980)#3,345
1990s340#2,421 (1995)#3,447
2000s401#3,176 (2006)#3,672
2010s289#4,144 (2018)#4,885
2020s184#3,935 (2021)#4,516

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.

Seneca in 1956

girls
#3,910
10 births · 1 in 200,770 girls

Top girls' names in 1956

  1. #1Mary61,741
  2. #2Debra48,324
  3. #3Linda48,084
  4. #4Deborah47,834
  5. #5Susan46,558
  6. #6Patricia43,329
  7. #7Karen40,052
  8. #8Cynthia32,339
  9. #9Barbara32,302
  10. #10Donna29,852
  11. #3,910Seneca10
More about 1956

girls

2,007,703 girls got a published name in 1956; 1 in 200,770 of them was named Seneca, which outranked 43.3% of the 6,891 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Seneca
  1. #3,696Wynell11
  2. #3,696Wynema11
  3. #3,696Zana11
  4. #3,910Seneca10
  5. #3,910Adana10
  6. #3,910Adrain10
  7. #3,910Ailene10
  8. #4,161Adline9
  9. #4,161Adora9
  10. #4,161Adra9

Tied with 250 names at #3,910; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1955
Risers
  1. ↑ 993Sheena#1,839 → #846
  2. ↑ 770Glendora#1,733 → #963
  3. ↑ 684Leesa#1,209 → #525
  4. ↑ 543Marisa#1,074 → #531
  5. ↑ 537Dani#1,383 → #846
Fallers
  1. ↓ 513Sheilah#663 → #1,176
  2. ↓ 481Jeryl#768 → #1,249
  3. ↓ 344Jacalyn#496 → #840
  4. ↓ 325Roni#536 → #861
  5. ↓ 314Florine#984 → #1,298

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1956 →