Seward

Last seen for boys in 1976 at #5,587

Peak · boys
1894 · 10 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
568
since 1881

Seward over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Seward has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201894peak #668, 1894boys
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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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1976#5,5875
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1967#3,5596
1966#3,2497
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1964#4,0395
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1960#3,3377
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1956#3,9425
1955#3,2017
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1951#3,3646
1950#3,6815
1949#3,6905
1948#3,0107
1947#2,8628
1946#2,40310
1945#2,7437
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1943#3,5385
1942#3,5605
1941#2,33310
1940#1,68017
1939#3,1136
1938#2,18511
1937#2,33210
1936#3,1476
1935#3,2526
1934#2,39310
1933#1,99713
1932#3,0927
1931#3,0957
1930#2,29312
1929#2,31712
1928#1,96016
1927#2,70310
1926#2,43612
1925#2,01216
1924#1,72721
1923#2,44612
1922#2,04016
1921#2,37613
1920#2,33613
1919#1,97316
1918#2,07315
1917#1,81517
1916#1,77117
1915#1,30626
1914#1,44118
1913#1,44114
1912#1,26814
1911#1,7405
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1901#1,0585
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1895#1,0795
1894#66810
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1891#9635
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1882#7547
1881#8665
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First appearance
1881

The first year at least five boys were named Seward! It came in at #866, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1883–1893, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Seward is popular in 1894

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Seward
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1976
  • Biggest jump: 112 spots in 1882 (#866 → #754)
  • Biggest drop: 411 spots in 1895 (#668 → #1,079)
Rise & fade · boys
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1881
  • Peaked 1894 at #668 (10 births)
  • Births halved by 1895, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 6 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1881–1882
Share of babies · boys
1 in 11,577
  • Highest: 1 in 11,577 boys born in 1894 were named Seward (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 313,801 boys born in 1976 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1910s
  • 25.0% of all boys named Seward (142) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s12#754 (1882)#810
1890s30#668 (1894)#975
1900s28#836 (1900)#1,083
1910s142#1,268 (1912)#1,648
1920s141#1,727 (1924)#2,235
1930s88#1,997 (1933)#2,690
1940s74#1,680 (1940)#2,869
1950s23#3,201 (1955)#3,547
1960s25#3,249 (1966)#3,546
1970s5#5,587 (1976)#5,587

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Seward in 1894

boys
#668
10 births · 1 in 11,577 boys

Top boys' names in 1894

  1. #1John8,237
  2. #2William7,274
  3. #3James5,110
  4. #4George4,365
  5. #5Charles3,788
  6. #6Joseph2,977
  7. #7Frank2,863
  8. #8Robert2,497
  9. #9Henry2,278
  10. #10Harry2,189
  11. #668Seward10
More about 1894

boys

115,768 boys got a published name in 1894; 1 in 11,577 of them was named Seward, which outranked 46.1% of the 1,239 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 35.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Seward
  1. #631Thornton11
  2. #631Weldon11
  3. #631Wilburn11
  4. #668Seward10
  5. #668Ace10
  6. #668Alford10
  7. #668Algie10
  8. #730Adelbert9
  9. #730Alpha9
  10. #730Andres9

Tied with 61 names at #668; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1893
Risers
  1. ↑ 514Levy#1,035 → #521
  2. ↑ 514Orrin#1,035 → #521
  3. ↑ 488Alvie#907 → #419
  4. ↑ 468Jonnie#1,035 → #567
  5. ↑ 441Carson#1,035 → #594
Fallers
  1. ↓ 683Lindsay#391 → #1,074
  2. ↓ 519Minnie#435 → #954
  3. ↓ 475Ludwig#479 → #954
  4. ↓ 459Alice#615 → #1,074
  5. ↓ 459Julia#615 → #1,074

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

See the top 100 for 1894 →