Seward
Seward reached its high-water mark in 1915 at number 1,306, and has been recorded 568 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1976. About 90 Sewards are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 76.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Seward
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 568
- Estimated living today
- 90
- Median age today
- 76
- Peak year
- 1915
- Best rank
- 1,306th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1881
How old the living Sewards are
born that year still alive today
Of the 568 babies given the name since 1881, about 90 are alive — 15 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1949 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.
Notable Sewards
- William Seward Burroughs I (1855–1898)American businessman
People named Seward with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Seward is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Seward is most concentrated in New York (12.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1915
The most popular boys’ names the year Seward peaked:
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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.