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Seanna vs Seaver

American parents have registered 2,355 Seannas since 1880, against 135 Seavers. Seanna is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Seanna 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

Seanna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1959 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1993, when Seanna had 27 and Seaver had 14.

Side by side

  Seanna Seaver
Total US births 2,355135
Most in one year 12514
Babies in 2025 24under 5
Estimated living today 2,300130
Median age today 2230
Peak year 20061993
Best rank 1,682nd girls4,227th boys
Rank in 2025 5,238thunranked
First recorded 19591988
Girls / boys 2,355 / 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 Seavers alive today are over 30; half the Seannas are over 22. That is 8 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: Seanna and Seaver.