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.
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 1995
Top girls' names in 1995
Top boys' names in 1995
More about 1995
girls
1,758,548 girls got a published name in 1995; 1 in 16,590 of them was named Sequoia, which outranked 90.5% of the 15,753 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,482Meg107
- #1,482Nicolle107
- #1,482Tracie107
- #1,492Sequoia106
- #1,492Acacia106
- #1,492Cady106
- #1,492Deonna106
- #1,502Chiara105
- #1,502Deasia105
- #1,502Makaila105
Tied with 9 names at #1,492; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,903,701 boys got a published name in 1995; 1 in 237,963 of them was named Sequoia, which outranked 38.0% of the 10,330 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,928Zeferino9
- #5,928Zenon9
- #5,928Ziare9
- #6,407Sequoia8
- #6,407Aaronjames8
- #6,407Abdel8
- #6,407Abrar8
- #6,992Abayomi7
- #6,992Abdullahi7
- #6,992Abu7
Tied with 584 names at #6,407; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.