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Sehaj

About 504 American babies have been named Sehaj since 2004, most of them around 2017. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 5,554th. About 500 Sehajs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Sehaj boys named Sehaj

Girls and boys called Sehaj

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 304 girls and 200 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 22 to 5.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 12 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
504
Estimated living today
500
Median age today
8
Peak year
2017
Best rank
4,304th
Rank in 2025
5,554th
First recorded
2004
Girls / boys
304 / 200

How old the living Sehajs are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 504 babies given the name since 2004, about 500 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Sehaj is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Sehaj is most concentrated in California (8.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2017

The most popular girls’ names the year Sehaj peaked:

All the names of 2017

Sehaj elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Sehaj 259 1,081st
England and Wales boys Sehaj 150 1,492nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.