Sequoyah
The girl's name Sequoyah has been in the national records since 1919, with 678 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 11,932nd. About 660 Sequoyahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Sequoyah
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Sequoyah crossed from boys to girls in 1995, and has stayed there for 10 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 82% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 11 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
- 678
- Estimated living today
- 660
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 1997
- Best rank
- 4,508th
- Rank in 2025
- 11,932nd
- First recorded
- 1919
- Girls / boys
- 477 / 201
How old the living Sequoyahs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 678 babies given the name since 1919, about 660 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 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 Sequoyah is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sequoyah is most concentrated in Georgia (23.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1997
The most popular girls’ names the year Sequoyah peaked:
Related names
Sequoyah against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.