Meaning not yet researched.
Sequoia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 97 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,147 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,147 in 2002; #1,987 in 2025. About 87% of babies named Sequoia in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,987 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #1,147.
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Sequoia: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 97 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,147 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 181 (2002).
In 2025, 97 US girls were named Sequoia, making it the 1,987th most common girls’ name of the year, up 395 places from #2,382 in 2024. That is 20 more than the 77 girls named Sequoia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,147, reached in 2002. That year also had the most girls given the name: 181. For comparison, it was #2,470 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Sequoia, making it the 6,395th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,826 places from #8,221 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 10 boys named Sequoia in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,958, reached in 1999. The most boys given the name in a single year was 23, in 2021. For comparison, it was #6,614 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sequoia in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1958 with 5 babies. In all, 4,432 US babies have been given the name, 89% of them girls and 11% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,311 babies named Sequoia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 820 US girls were named Sequoia; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 97. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,570 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sequoia ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #721 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Sequoyah, Sequoya and Sequioa are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sequoyah (678), Sequoya (498), Sequioa (52), Seqouia (42), Sequia (25), Sequoyia (5).
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 Sequoia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 5 | #721 | #416 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #775 | — |
| California | 21 | #1,222 | #1,290 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,386 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 97 | #1,987 | 14 | #6,395 |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,382 | 10 | #8,221 |
| 2023 | 81 | #2,284 | 18 | #5,423 |
| 2022 | 92 | #2,101 | 15 | #6,097 |
| 2021 | 81 | #2,282 | 23 | #4,471 |
| 2020 | 79 | #2,275 | 18 | #5,195 |
| 2019 | 92 | #2,066 | 16 | #5,759 |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,384 | 12 | #7,054 |
| 2017 | 80 | #2,316 | 19 | #5,077 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,734 | 13 | #6,663 |
| 2015 | 74 | #2,470 | 13 | #6,614 |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,578 | 13 | #6,569 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,898 | 13 | #6,555 |
| 2012 | 71 | #2,562 | 10 | #8,041 |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,661 | 10 | #7,966 |
| 2010 | 79 | #2,402 | 14 | #6,310 |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,589 | 15 | #6,038 |
| 2008 | 81 | #2,396 | 15 | #6,012 |
| 2007 | 102 | #2,014 | 10 | #8,068 |
| 2006 | 103 | #1,956 | 16 | #5,482 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,875 | 17 | #4,998 |
| 2004 | 134 | #1,515 | 18 | #4,762 |
| 2003 | 142 | #1,409 | 15 | #5,226 |
| 2002 | 181 | #1,147 | 12 | #6,010 |
| 2001 | 135 | #1,410 | 19 | #4,267 |
| 2000 | 109 | #1,630 | 11 | #6,237 |
| 1999 | 97 | #1,704 | 19 | #3,958 |
| 1998 | 97 | #1,663 | 12 | #5,407 |
| 1997 | 94 | #1,677 | 8 | #7,166 |
| 1996 | 93 | #1,652 | 10 | #5,899 |
| 1995 | 106 | #1,501 | 8 | #6,870 |
| 1994 | 91 | #1,661 | 8 | #6,875 |
| 1993 | 110 | #1,458 | 9 | #6,140 |
| 1992 | 111 | #1,446 | 5 | #9,577 |
| 1991 | 68 | #2,031 | — | — |
| 1990 | 93 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 1989 | 77 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 1988 | 75 | #1,719 | — | — |
| 1987 | 74 | #1,659 | — | — |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,105 | — | — |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,311 | 5 | #7,402 |
| 1984 | 47 | #2,140 | — | — |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,407 | 5 | #7,155 |
| 1982 | 30 | #3,004 | 5 | #7,188 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,223 | — | — |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,111 | — | — |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,916 | 7 | #5,269 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,482 | 5 | #6,608 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,885 | — | — |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,550 | 6 | #5,485 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,805 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,745 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,133 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,127 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,856 | — | — |
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).