Meaning not yet researched.
Seneca: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,059 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,059 in 1980; #4,343 in 2025. About 67% of babies named Seneca in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,343 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #2,059.
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Seneca: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,059 in 1980 · most girls in one year: 53 (1995).
In 2025, 33 US girls were named Seneca, making it the 4,343rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 932 places from #5,275 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 25 girls named Seneca in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,059, reached in 1980. The most girls given the name in a single year was 53, in 1995. For comparison, it was #4,394 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Seneca, making it the 5,808th most common boys’ name of the year, down 955 places from #4,853 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 21 boys named Seneca in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #633, reached in 1977. That year also had the most boys given the name: 179. For comparison, it was #5,254 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Seneca in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 10 babies. In all, 3,523 US babies have been given the name, 50% of them girls and 50% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 779 babies named Seneca.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 291 US girls were named Seneca; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,705 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Senica, Senaca and Senika are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Senica (99), Senaca (54), Senika (28), Senecca (27), Seneka (12), Senneca (11).
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 Seneca in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,343 | 16 | #5,808 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,275 | 21 | #4,853 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,105 | 16 | #5,878 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,777 | 20 | #4,989 |
| 2021 | 37 | #4,005 | 12 | #7,029 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,150 | 17 | #5,422 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,664 | 23 | #4,453 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,227 | 24 | #4,328 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,316 | 22 | #4,571 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,419 | 30 | #3,667 |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,394 | 18 | #5,254 |
| 2014 | 28 | #5,010 | 20 | #4,837 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,868 | 20 | #4,769 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,817 | 11 | #7,462 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,662 | 17 | #5,392 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,716 | 27 | #3,885 |
| 2009 | 39 | #4,004 | 27 | #3,898 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,996 | 26 | #4,015 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,968 | 41 | #2,914 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,217 | 34 | #3,210 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,796 | 29 | #3,439 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,557 | 29 | #3,357 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,284 | 26 | #3,510 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,366 | 31 | #3,007 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,536 | 27 | #3,307 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,583 | 30 | #2,980 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,181 | 14 | #4,986 |
| 1998 | 39 | #3,215 | 16 | #4,378 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,146 | 30 | #2,669 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,811 | 17 | #3,988 |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,449 | 9 | #6,325 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,982 | 12 | #5,066 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,860 | 11 | #5,290 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,204 | 8 | #6,589 |
| 1991 | 26 | #4,028 | 10 | #5,444 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,280 | 15 | #3,935 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,487 | 14 | #3,991 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,564 | 12 | #4,120 |
| 1987 | 16 | #5,034 | 15 | #3,313 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,693 | 27 | #2,147 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,391 | 29 | #2,007 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,832 | 39 | #1,575 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,525 | 58 | #1,199 |
| 1982 | 43 | #2,319 | 58 | #1,226 |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,366 | 82 | #1,008 |
| 1980 | 51 | #2,059 | 147 | #724 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,514 | 110 | #833 |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,424 | 117 | #785 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,296 | 179 | #633 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,079 | 107 | #808 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,316 | 7 | #4,703 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,276 | — | — |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,532 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,038 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,208 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,374 | — | — |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,188 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,968 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,854 | — | — |
| 1957 | 25 | #2,266 | — | — |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,118 | — | — |
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).