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
- Peak · girls
- 1980 · 51 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,766since 1956
Seneca 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 | #4,265 | 33 | #5,608 | 16 |
| 2024 | #5,148 | 25 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2023 | #4,999 | 26 | #5,666 | 16 |
| 2022 | #4,671 | 29 | #4,850 | 20 |
| 2021 | #3,935 | 37 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #4,078 | 34 | #5,235 | 17 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | #4,337 | 23 |
| 2018 | #4,144 | 34 | #4,226 | 24 |
| 2017 | #5,191 | 25 | #4,466 | 22 |
| 2016 | #4,345 | 33 | #3,596 | 30 |
| 2015 | #4,295 | 33 | #5,058 | 18 |
| 2014 | #4,892 | 28 | #4,702 | 20 |
| 2013 | #4,755 | 29 | #4,621 | 20 |
| 2012 | #4,707 | 30 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #4,568 | 31 | #5,200 | 17 |
| 2010 | #4,608 | 31 | #3,812 | 27 |
| 2009 | #3,944 | 39 | #3,831 | 27 |
| 2008 | #3,936 | 40 | #3,921 | 26 |
| 2007 | #3,918 | 40 | #2,868 | 41 |
| 2006 | #3,176 | 52 | #3,153 | 34 |
| 2005 | #3,730 | 39 | #3,389 | 29 |
| 2004 | #3,490 | 42 | #3,285 | 29 |
| 2003 | #3,232 | 45 | #3,443 | 26 |
| 2002 | #4,280 | 29 | #2,943 | 31 |
| 2001 | #3,486 | 38 | #3,228 | 27 |
| 2000 | #3,527 | 37 | #2,922 | 30 |
| 1999 | #4,088 | 28 | #4,762 | 14 |
| 1998 | #3,173 | 39 | #4,197 | 16 |
| 1997 | #3,105 | 38 | #2,613 | 30 |
| 1996 | #3,723 | 29 | #3,830 | 17 |
| 1995 | #2,421 | 53 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #2,935 | 40 | #4,803 | 12 |
| 1993 | #3,776 | 28 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #4,088 | 25 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #3,936 | 26 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #3,227 | 34 | #3,779 | 15 |
| 1989 | #4,358 | 21 | #3,809 | 14 |
| 1988 | #3,483 | 27 | #3,915 | 12 |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 | #3,201 | 15 |
| 1986 | #4,539 | 17 | #2,096 | 27 |
| 1985 | #3,328 | 26 | #1,975 | 29 |
| 1984 | #2,781 | 32 | #1,556 | 39 |
| 1983 | #3,431 | 23 | #1,190 | 58 |
| 1982 | #2,288 | 43 | #1,217 | 58 |
| 1981 | #2,342 | 42 | #1,002 | 82 |
| 1980 | #2,043 | 51 | #718 | 147 |
| 1979 | #2,477 | 37 | #831 | 110 |
| 1978 | #2,390 | 37 | #778 | 117 |
| 1977 | #2,257 | 40 | #629 | 179 |
| 1976 | #3,002 | 24 | #803 | 107 |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #5,011 | 11 | — | |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | — | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | — | |
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| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,095 | 16 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | — | |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,218 | 25 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 | — | |
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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.
See more about Seneca
- 883 spots since 2024 (#5,148 → #4,265)
- 187 spots since 2020 (#4,078 → #4,265)
- 30 spots since 2015 (#4,295 → #4,265)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 1980 at #2,043 (51 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 22.7% of all girls named Seneca (401) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2019, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 48 | #2,218 (1957) | #4,214 |
| 1960s | 21 | #3,095 (1960) | #4,831 |
| 1970s | 185 | #2,257 (1977) | #4,363 |
| 1980s | 298 | #2,043 (1980) | #3,345 |
| 1990s | 340 | #2,421 (1995) | #3,447 |
| 2000s | 401 | #3,176 (2006) | #3,672 |
| 2010s | 289 | #4,144 (2018) | #4,885 |
| 2020s | 184 | #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 1956
Top girls' names in 1956
More about 1956
girls
2,007,703 girls got a published name in 1956; 1 in 200,770 of them was named Seneca, which outranked 43.3% of the 6,891 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,696Wynell11
- #3,696Wynema11
- #3,696Zana11
- #3,910Seneca10
- #3,910Adana10
- #3,910Adrain10
- #3,910Ailene10
- #4,161Adline9
- #4,161Adora9
- #4,161Adra9
Tied with 250 names at #3,910; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.