Seneca

Where Seneca comes from

Seneca hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1715
    Seneca Inggersen born
    German pharmacist
  2. 1956
    First appearance
    #3,910 among girls, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1980
    Seneca Wallace born
    American football player
  4. 1980
    Peak, #2,043
    51 babies named Seneca — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1983
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,431.
  6. 2020
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Seneca Wallace · American football player, born 1980
  • Seneca Inggersen · German pharmacist, 1715–1786

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.