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Seanna vs Seavy

American parents have registered 2,355 Seannas since 1880, against 6 Seavys. Seanna is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Seanna Seavy

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 67 years in which either name was published, Seanna for 66 years and Seavy for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Seanna Seavy
Total US births 2,3556
Most in one year 1256
Babies in 2025 24under 5
Estimated living today 2,3001
Median age today 2288
Peak year 20061937
Best rank 1,682nd girls3,175th boys
Rank in 2025 5,238thunranked
First recorded 19591937
Girls / boys 2,355 / 00 / 6

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 Seavys alive today are over 88; half the Seannas are over 22. That is 66 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 Seavy.