Meaning not yet researched.
Sekani: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 173 in 2025. Its best rank was #874 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #874 in 2019; #1,187 in 2025. About 79% of babies named Sekani in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,187 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #874.
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Sekani: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 173 boys in 2025. Peak: #874 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 252 (2019).
In 2025, 173 US boys were named Sekani, making it the 1,187th most common boys’ name of the year, up 42 places from #1,229 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 164 boys named Sekani in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #874, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 252. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 46 US girls were named Sekani, making it the 3,378th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,632 places from #5,010 in 2024. That is 19 more than the 27 girls named Sekani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,628, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 67. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sekani in 10 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 5 babies. In all, 1,619 US babies have been given the name, 18% of them girls and 82% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,278 babies named Sekani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,323 US boys were named Sekani; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 252. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,873 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sekani ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #512 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Zekani and Sekanii are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zekani (38), Sekanii (17).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Sekani in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 6 | #512 | — |
| Louisiana | 9 | #527 | — |
| Alabama | 7 | #673 | — |
| North Carolina | 14 | #676 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #857 | — |
| Virginia | 8 | #866 | — |
| Georgia | 10 | #912 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #930 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,017 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,093 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,337 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,406 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,442 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,450 | — |
| New York | 6 | #1,725 | — |
| Texas | 10 | #1,732 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,177 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).