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Seana vs Seaver

American parents have registered 1,905 Seanas since 1880, against 135 Seavers. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Seana against Seaver, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Seana Seaver

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 70 years in which either name was published, Seana for 69 years and Seaver for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Seana Seaver
Total US births 1,905135
Most in one year 6214
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,800130
Median age today 4030
Peak year 19691993
Best rank 1,499th girls4,227th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19551988
Girls / boys 1,905 / 00 / 135

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Seanas alive today are over 40; half the Seavers are over 30. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Seana and Seaver.