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Sedgwick vs Sedona

American parents have registered 2,381 Sedonas since 1880, against 44 Sedgwicks. Sedona is still ahead, with 132 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Sedgwick Sedona

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 46 years in which either name was published, Sedona for 38 years and Sedgwick for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Sedgwick Sedona
Total US births 442,381
Most in one year 8132
Babies in 2025 under 5132
Estimated living today 402,400
Median age today 5714
Peak year 19542025
Best rank 2,942nd boys1,587th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,587th
First recorded 19541987
Girls / boys 0 / 442,381 / 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 Sedgwicks alive today are over 57; half the Sedonas are over 14. That is 43 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: Sedgwick and Sedona.