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 | ||
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| 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 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Oregon#463 · 1 in 1,836
- Washington#833 · 1 in 4,106
- California#1,306 · 1 in 8,689
- Texas#3,316 · 1 in 32,554
Best ever in a state: #317 in South Carolina, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | #463 | 7 | 1 in 1,836 |
| Washington | #833 | 7 | 1 in 4,106 |
| California | #1,306 | 20 | 1 in 8,689 |
| Texas | #3,316 | 5 | 1 in 32,554 |
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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 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 17,828 of them was named Sequoia, which outranked 88.2% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,068Stormie93
- #2,068Tianna93
- #2,068Yasmeen93
- #2,087Sequoia92
- #2,087Aiyanna92
- #2,087Analiyah92
- #2,087Anayeli92
- #2,103Annabeth91
- #2,103Annalia91
- #2,103Anylah91
Tied with 15 names at #2,087; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 116,401 of them was named Sequoia, which outranked 59.0% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,633Zo16
- #5,633Zyeir16
- #5,633Zylin16
- #5,874Sequoia15
- #5,874Aadit15
- #5,874Abdur15
- #5,874Abhimanyu15
- #6,147Abdelrahman14
- #6,147Abijah14
- #6,147Aboubacar14
Tied with 272 names at #5,874; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.