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Seann vs Seanna

American parents have registered 2,355 Seannas since 1880, against 522 Seanns. Seanna is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Seann against Seanna, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Seann Seanna

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 66 years in which either name was published, Seanna for 64 years and Seann for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Seann Seanna
Total US births 5222,355
Most in one year 26125
Babies in 2025 under 524
Estimated living today 4902,300
Median age today 4122
Peak year 19822006
Best rank 2,059th boys1,682nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked5,238th
First recorded 19661959
Girls / boys 5 / 5172,355 / 0

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 Seanns alive today are over 41; half the Seannas are over 22. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Seann Seanna
England and Wales 10139

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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