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
- Peak · girls
- 1980 · 51 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,766since 1956
Seneca 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 | #4,265 | 33 | #5,608 | 16 |
| 2024 | #5,148 | 25 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2023 | #4,999 | 26 | #5,666 | 16 |
| 2022 | #4,671 | 29 | #4,850 | 20 |
| 2021 | #3,935 | 37 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #4,078 | 34 | #5,235 | 17 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | #4,337 | 23 |
| 2018 | #4,144 | 34 | #4,226 | 24 |
| 2017 | #5,191 | 25 | #4,466 | 22 |
| 2016 | #4,345 | 33 | #3,596 | 30 |
| 2015 | #4,295 | 33 | #5,058 | 18 |
| 2014 | #4,892 | 28 | #4,702 | 20 |
| 2013 | #4,755 | 29 | #4,621 | 20 |
| 2012 | #4,707 | 30 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #4,568 | 31 | #5,200 | 17 |
| 2010 | #4,608 | 31 | #3,812 | 27 |
| 2009 | #3,944 | 39 | #3,831 | 27 |
| 2008 | #3,936 | 40 | #3,921 | 26 |
| 2007 | #3,918 | 40 | #2,868 | 41 |
| 2006 | #3,176 | 52 | #3,153 | 34 |
| 2005 | #3,730 | 39 | #3,389 | 29 |
| 2004 | #3,490 | 42 | #3,285 | 29 |
| 2003 | #3,232 | 45 | #3,443 | 26 |
| 2002 | #4,280 | 29 | #2,943 | 31 |
| 2001 | #3,486 | 38 | #3,228 | 27 |
| 2000 | #3,527 | 37 | #2,922 | 30 |
| 1999 | #4,088 | 28 | #4,762 | 14 |
| 1998 | #3,173 | 39 | #4,197 | 16 |
| 1997 | #3,105 | 38 | #2,613 | 30 |
| 1996 | #3,723 | 29 | #3,830 | 17 |
| 1995 | #2,421 | 53 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #2,935 | 40 | #4,803 | 12 |
| 1993 | #3,776 | 28 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #4,088 | 25 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #3,936 | 26 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #3,227 | 34 | #3,779 | 15 |
| 1989 | #4,358 | 21 | #3,809 | 14 |
| 1988 | #3,483 | 27 | #3,915 | 12 |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 | #3,201 | 15 |
| 1986 | #4,539 | 17 | #2,096 | 27 |
| 1985 | #3,328 | 26 | #1,975 | 29 |
| 1984 | #2,781 | 32 | #1,556 | 39 |
| 1983 | #3,431 | 23 | #1,190 | 58 |
| 1982 | #2,288 | 43 | #1,217 | 58 |
| 1981 | #2,342 | 42 | #1,002 | 82 |
| 1980 | #2,043 | 51 | #718 | 147 |
| 1979 | #2,477 | 37 | #831 | 110 |
| 1978 | #2,390 | 37 | #778 | 117 |
| 1977 | #2,257 | 40 | #629 | 179 |
| 1976 | #3,002 | 24 | #803 | 107 |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #5,011 | 11 | — | |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | — | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | — | |
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| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,095 | 16 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | — | |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,218 | 25 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 | — | |
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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 1978
No state had 5 or more girls named Seneca in 1978, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Seneca
- 883 spots since 2024 (#5,148 → #4,265)
- 187 spots since 2020 (#4,078 → #4,265)
- 30 spots since 2015 (#4,295 → #4,265)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 1980 at #2,043 (51 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 22.7% of all girls named Seneca (401) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2019, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 48 | #2,218 (1957) | #4,214 |
| 1960s | 21 | #3,095 (1960) | #4,831 |
| 1970s | 185 | #2,257 (1977) | #4,363 |
| 1980s | 298 | #2,043 (1980) | #3,345 |
| 1990s | 340 | #2,421 (1995) | #3,447 |
| 2000s | 401 | #3,176 (2006) | #3,672 |
| 2010s | 289 | #4,144 (2018) | #4,885 |
| 2020s | 184 | #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 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 41,402 of them was named Seneca, which outranked 79.2% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,350Terina38
- #2,350Tijuana38
- #2,350Tristan38
- #2,390Seneca37
- #2,390Allegra37
- #2,390Angle37
- #2,390Annabelle37
- #2,431Alexander36
- #2,431Amaris36
- #2,431Amira36
Tied with 40 names at #2,390; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 14,033 of them was named Seneca, which outranked 88.5% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #774Garth118
- #774Lenny118
- #774Lowell118
- #778Seneca117
- #778Adolfo117
- #778Cleveland117
- #778Cortney117
- #786Errol116
- #786Moshe116
- #786Nicky116
Tied with 7 names at #778; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.