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
#2,043
1980 · 51 births
Debut · girls
1956
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#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201982peak #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
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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
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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 1982

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedNHWashington: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedWAIdaho: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedNDMinnesota: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedMNIllinois: #984 for girls · 7 births · 1 in 10,632 girlsILWisconsin: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedWIMichigan: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedMINew York: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedNYMassachusetts: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedMARhode Island: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedRIOregon: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedORNevada: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedNVWyoming: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedIAIndiana: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedINOhio: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedOHPennsylvania: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedPANew Jersey: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedNJConnecticut: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedCTCalifornia: #2,086 for girls · 6 births · 1 in 30,956 girlsCAUtah: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedUTColorado: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedCONebraska: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedNEMissouri: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedMOKentucky: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedWVVirginia: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedVAMaryland: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedMDDelaware: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedDEArizona: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedAZNew Mexico: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedNMKansas: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedKSArkansas: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedARTennessee: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedTNNorth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedNCSouth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedDCOklahoma: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedOKLouisiana: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedLAMississippi: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedMSAlabama: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedALGeorgia: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedGAHawaii: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedHITexas: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedTXFlorida: fewer than 5 girls named Seneca, so not publishedFL

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Top states · girls
  1. Illinois#984 · 1 in 10,632
  2. California#2,086 · 1 in 30,956

Best ever in a state: #441 in South Carolina, 1980.

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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 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
all girlsall boys
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 1982

girls
#2,288
43 births · 1 in 39,380 girls
boys
#1,217
58 births · 1 in 31,284 boys

Top girls' names in 1982

  1. #1Jennifer57,120
  2. #2Jessica45,453
  3. #3Amanda34,214
  4. #4Sarah28,483
  5. #5Melissa25,864
  6. #6Nicole21,706
  7. #7Stephanie20,861
  8. #8Elizabeth20,506
  9. #9Crystal19,099
  10. #10Amy18,799
  11. #2,288Seneca43

Top boys' names in 1982

  1. #1Michael68,216
  2. #2Christopher59,223
  3. #3Matthew46,045
  4. #4Jason40,628
  5. #5David40,453
  6. #6James38,874
  7. #7Joshua38,004
  8. #8John34,698
  9. #9Robert34,409
  10. #10Daniel32,652
  11. #1,217Seneca58
More about 1982

girls

1,693,325 girls got a published name in 1982; 1 in 39,380 of them was named Seneca, which outranked 81.4% of the 12,332 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Seneca
  1. #2,250Valene44
  2. #2,250Yazmin44
  3. #2,250Zulema44
  4. #2,288Seneca43
  5. #2,288Aleasha43
  6. #2,288Amaris43
  7. #2,288Annabel43
  8. #2,327Alta42
  9. #2,327Billi42
  10. #2,327Catina42

Tied with 38 names at #2,288; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1981
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,715Kaleena#2,375 → #660
  2. ↑ 1,197Kala#1,958 → #761
  3. ↑ 1,094Chelsie#2,028 → #934
  4. ↑ 1,081Tenika#2,028 → #947
  5. ↑ 1,044Falon#1,958 → #914
Fallers
  1. ↓ 538Evita#779 → #1,317
  2. ↓ 517Martine#791 → #1,308
  3. ↓ 473Dusty#720 → #1,193
  4. ↓ 470Regan#991 → #1,461
  5. ↓ 401Windy#998 → #1,399

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

boys

1,814,447 boys got a published name in 1982; 1 in 31,284 of them was named Seneca, which outranked 83.5% of the 7,367 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Seneca
  1. #1,210Kieran59
  2. #1,210Rosendo59
  3. #1,210Yehuda59
  4. #1,217Seneca58
  5. #1,217Abdullah58
  6. #1,217Alfonzo58
  7. #1,217Anibal58
  8. #1,229Angela57
  9. #1,229Cheyne57
  10. #1,229Christpher57

Tied with 11 names at #1,217; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1981
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,958Colt#2,418 → #460
  2. ↑ 730Eliot#1,695 → #965
  3. ↑ 532Colton#1,334 → #802
  4. ↑ 478Kiel#1,101 → #623
  5. ↑ 416Eugenio#1,411 → #995
Fallers
  1. ↓ 309Marchello#841 → #1,150
  2. ↓ 237Carmen#851 → #1,088
  3. ↓ 234Claudio#976 → #1,210
  4. ↓ 224Irvin#826 → #1,050
  5. ↓ 222Jeramiah#971 → #1,193

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

See the top 100 for 1982 →