Sequoia
#1,981 for girls in 2025, 97 births · #6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
Given to girls 88.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 181 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,941since 1958
Sequoia 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,981 | 97 | #6,143 | 14 |
| 2024 | #2,362 | 77 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #2,269 | 81 | #5,255 | 18 |
| 2022 | #2,087 | 92 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #2,266 | 81 | #4,362 | 23 |
| 2020 | #2,257 | 79 | #5,041 | 18 |
| 2019 | #2,056 | 92 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2018 | #2,361 | 77 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #2,302 | 80 | #4,935 | 19 |
| 2016 | #2,697 | 64 | #6,349 | 13 |
| 2015 | #2,456 | 74 | #6,324 | 13 |
| 2014 | #2,560 | 69 | #6,307 | 13 |
| 2013 | #2,870 | 59 | #6,241 | 13 |
| 2012 | #2,548 | 71 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | #2,638 | 67 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #2,386 | 79 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2009 | #2,568 | 72 | #5,800 | 15 |
| 2008 | #2,380 | 81 | #5,767 | 15 |
| 2007 | #2,003 | 102 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #1,939 | 103 | #5,303 | 16 |
| 2005 | #1,855 | 104 | #4,824 | 17 |
| 2004 | #1,498 | 134 | #4,602 | 18 |
| 2003 | #1,395 | 142 | #5,035 | 15 |
| 2002 | #1,144 | 181 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | #1,403 | 135 | #4,121 | 19 |
| 2000 | #1,617 | 109 | #5,920 | 11 |
| 1999 | #1,688 | 97 | #3,834 | 19 |
| 1998 | #1,657 | 97 | #5,159 | 12 |
| 1997 | #1,671 | 94 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #1,641 | 93 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #1,492 | 106 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #1,649 | 91 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #1,451 | 110 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #1,442 | 111 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #2,014 | 68 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,605 | 93 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,750 | 77 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,704 | 75 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,647 | 74 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,079 | 51 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,283 | 44 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #2,111 | 47 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,340 | 24 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #2,959 | 30 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #3,147 | 27 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,992 | 19 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,860 | 30 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #3,761 | 19 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 | #4,935 | 6 |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 | — | |
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| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sequoia! It came in at #6,103, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1958–1970, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Sequoia is popular in 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- South Carolina#317 · 1 in 1,500
- Wisconsin#423 · 1 in 2,260
- Virginia#544 · 1 in 3,242
- Kentucky#581 · 1 in 3,856
- Washington#619 · 1 in 3,552
Best ever in a state: #317 in South Carolina, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #317 | 11 | 1 in 1,500 |
| Wisconsin | #423 | 11 | 1 in 2,260 |
| Virginia | #544 | 11 | 1 in 3,242 |
| Kentucky | #581 | 5 | 1 in 3,856 |
| Washington | #619 | 8 | 1 in 3,552 |
| Georgia | #667 | 12 | 1 in 4,034 |
| Louisiana | #724 | 5 | 1 in 4,104 |
| North Carolina | #735 | 9 | 1 in 4,827 |
| Tennessee | #853 | 5 | 1 in 6,005 |
| Florida | #915 | 12 | 1 in 6,418 |
| California | #1,251 | 22 | 1 in 10,124 |
| Illinois | #1,377 | 6 | 1 in 11,446 |
| Texas | #1,997 | 8 | 1 in 19,493 |
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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 Sequoia
- 381 spots since 2024 (#2,362 → #1,981)
- 276 spots since 2020 (#2,257 → #1,981)
- 475 spots since 2015 (#2,456 → #1,981)
- Debuted 1958
- Peaked 2002 at #1,144 (181 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,928 girls born in 2002 were named Sequoia (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,570 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 29.5% of all girls named Sequoia (1,163) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #6,103 (1958) | #6,103 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 106 | #2,860 (1979) | #5,337 |
| 1980s | 468 | #1,647 (1987) | #2,501 |
| 1990s | 960 | #1,442 (1992) | #1,631 |
| 2000s | 1,163 | #1,144 (2002) | #1,780 |
| 2010s | 732 | #2,056 (2019) | #2,487 |
| 2020s | 507 | #1,981 (2025) | #2,204 |
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.
Sequoia in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 9,928 of them was named Sequoia, which outranked 93.7% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 161,793 of them was named Sequoia, which outranked 54.2% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,395Zakir13
- #5,395Zaul13
- #5,395Zohaib13
- #5,725Sequoia12
- #5,725Aahil12
- #5,725Abdalrahman12
- #5,725Abdurahman12
- #6,088Aadam11
- #6,088Aaditya11
- #6,088Abdi11
Tied with 362 names at #5,725; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.