Meaning not yet researched.
Seth: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 505 in 2025. Its best rank was #63 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #63 in 2000; #581 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Seth in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#581 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #63.
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Seth: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 505 boys in 2025. Peak: #63 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 6,717 (2000).
In 2025, 505 US boys were named Seth, making it the 581st most common boys’ name of the year, down 26 places from #555 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 535 boys named Seth in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #63, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 6,717. For comparison, it was #270 in 2015 and #594 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Seth in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 25 babies with the name. In all, 166,288 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 48,259 babies named Seth.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,474 US boys were named Seth; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,169. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,382 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Seth ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #299 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Zeth, Seith and Ceth are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zeth (1,202), Seith (125), Ceth (58), Sethe (32), Seath (30), Set (27).
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 Seth 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 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 27 | #299 | #209 |
| Utah | 14 | #350 | #157 |
| Oregon | 11 | #371 | #320 |
| Virginia | 21 | #387 | #232 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #402 | #302 |
| Mississippi | 8 | #408 | #366 |
| Ohio | 26 | #426 | #219 |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | #438 | #212 |
| Iowa | 7 | #490 | #311 |
| Nevada | 6 | #504 | #306 |
| Maryland | 10 | #507 | #198 |
| Kansas | 7 | #512 | #353 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #513 | #249 |
| Tennessee | 15 | #518 | #245 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #544 | #204 |
| Missouri | 11 | #550 | #263 |
| Texas | 55 | #574 | #311 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #598 | #244 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #619 | #198 |
| Michigan | 13 | #636 | #233 |
| North Carolina | 15 | #638 | #237 |
| Georgia | 16 | #647 | #328 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #656 | #359 |
| Florida | 25 | #659 | #282 |
| Alabama | 7 | #675 | #282 |
| California | 41 | #679 | #321 |
| Arizona | 9 | #711 | #250 |
| Washington | 9 | #726 | #331 |
| Illinois | 12 | #744 | #434 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #749 | #340 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #774 | #311 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #795 | #288 |
| Colorado | 5 | #941 | #318 |
| New York | 13 | #982 | #302 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 505 | #581 |
| 2024 | — | — | 535 | #555 |
| 2023 | — | — | 562 | #526 |
| 2022 | — | — | 651 | #473 |
| 2021 | — | — | 607 | #488 |
| 2020 | — | — | 688 | #432 |
| 2019 | — | — | 831 | #380 |
| 2018 | — | — | 860 | #375 |
| 2017 | — | — | 1,066 | #320 |
| 2016 | — | — | 1,169 | #303 |
| 2015 | — | — | 1,351 | #270 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,799 | 1,506 | #250 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,847 | 1,596 | #231 |
| 2012 | — | — | 1,815 | #209 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,107 | 2,094 | #184 |
| 2010 | — | — | 2,383 | #164 |
| 2009 | — | — | 2,945 | #139 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,986 | 3,283 | #128 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,498 | 3,768 | #115 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,192 | 4,328 | #103 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,248 | 4,713 | #91 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,798 | 5,188 | #80 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,212 | 5,256 | #80 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,381 | 5,740 | #72 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,862 | 6,223 | #68 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,602 | 6,717 | #63 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,106 | 6,305 | #65 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,799 | 4,587 | #86 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,623 | 4,043 | #97 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,679 | 3,886 | #103 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,326 | 3,911 | #97 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,541 | 4,135 | #90 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,554 | 4,060 | #93 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,974 | 3,913 | #94 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,895 | 3,812 | #99 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,762 | 3,561 | #102 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,353 | 3,633 | #94 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,621 | 3,493 | #90 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,558 | 3,339 | #89 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,998 | 2,980 | #97 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,253 | 2,821 | #104 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,958 | 2,911 | #99 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,646 | 2,857 | #98 |
| 1982 | 20 | #4,002 | 2,908 | #102 |
| 1981 | 33 | #2,766 | 3,137 | #95 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,699 | 3,050 | #99 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,579 | 2,840 | #101 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,217 | 2,504 | #106 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,387 | 2,288 | #118 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,478 | 2,097 | #128 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,099 | 1,866 | #136 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,746 | 1,410 | #170 |
| 1973 | — | — | 1,136 | #196 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,122 | 867 | #244 |
| 1971 | — | — | 781 | #271 |
| 1970 | — | — | 795 | #269 |
| 1969 | — | — | 580 | #319 |
| 1968 | — | — | 525 | #333 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,641 | 395 | #379 |
| 1966 | — | — | 342 | #409 |
| 1965 | — | — | 323 | #431 |
| 1964 | — | — | 348 | #429 |
| 1963 | — | — | 291 | #462 |
| 1962 | — | — | 314 | #447 |
| 1961 | — | — | 329 | #443 |
| 1960 | — | — | 340 | #436 |
| 1959 | — | — | 294 | #467 |
| 1958 | — | — | 315 | #443 |
| 1957 | — | — | 261 | #485 |
| 1956 | — | — | 245 | #488 |
| 1955 | — | — | 215 | #505 |
| 1954 | — | — | 215 | #495 |
| 1953 | — | — | 176 | #538 |
| 1952 | — | — | 129 | #621 |
| 1951 | — | — | 119 | #648 |
| 1950 | — | — | 132 | #594 |
| 1949 | — | — | 138 | #576 |
| 1948 | — | — | 100 | #677 |
| 1947 | — | — | 90 | #726 |
| 1946 | — | — | 91 | #680 |
| 1945 | — | — | 77 | #698 |
| 1944 | — | — | 63 | #795 |
| 1943 | — | — | 84 | #701 |
| 1942 | — | — | 82 | #712 |
| 1941 | — | — | 70 | #745 |
| 1940 | — | — | 57 | #838 |
| 1939 | — | — | 61 | #781 |
| 1938 | — | — | 65 | #763 |
| 1937 | — | — | 60 | #801 |
| 1936 | — | — | 52 | #852 |
| 1935 | — | — | 56 | #842 |
| 1934 | — | — | 71 | #728 |
| 1933 | — | — | 70 | #731 |
| 1932 | — | — | 66 | #785 |
| 1931 | — | — | 56 | #854 |
| 1930 | — | — | 55 | #908 |
| 1929 | — | — | 64 | #813 |
| 1928 | — | — | 74 | #750 |
| 1927 | — | — | 68 | #809 |
| 1926 | — | — | 82 | #707 |
| 1925 | — | — | 96 | #653 |
| 1924 | — | — | 83 | #729 |
| 1923 | — | — | 94 | #663 |
| 1922 | — | — | 95 | #664 |
| 1921 | — | — | 109 | #607 |
| 1920 | — | — | 109 | #603 |
| 1919 | — | — | 86 | #672 |
| 1918 | — | — | 100 | #616 |
| 1917 | — | — | 81 | #667 |
| 1916 | — | — | 84 | #639 |
| 1915 | — | — | 80 | #651 |
| 1914 | — | — | 67 | #621 |
| 1913 | — | — | 66 | #536 |
| 1912 | — | — | 41 | #667 |
| 1911 | — | — | 22 | #686 |
| 1910 | — | — | 15 | #815 |
| 1909 | — | — | 23 | #556 |
| 1908 | — | — | 20 | #579 |
| 1907 | — | — | 20 | #553 |
| 1906 | — | — | 17 | #582 |
| 1905 | — | — | 17 | #589 |
| 1904 | — | — | 14 | #640 |
| 1903 | — | — | 18 | #520 |
| 1902 | — | — | 10 | #787 |
| 1901 | — | — | 15 | #529 |
| 1900 | — | — | 27 | #442 |
| 1899 | — | — | 11 | #654 |
| 1898 | — | — | 14 | #603 |
| 1897 | — | — | 19 | #457 |
| 1896 | — | — | 11 | #717 |
| 1895 | — | — | 18 | #488 |
| 1894 | — | — | 14 | #560 |
| 1893 | — | — | 15 | #502 |
| 1892 | — | — | 29 | #354 |
| 1891 | — | — | 22 | #373 |
| 1890 | — | — | 15 | #507 |
| 1889 | — | — | 27 | #347 |
| 1888 | — | — | 30 | #342 |
| 1887 | — | — | 18 | #403 |
| 1886 | — | — | 23 | #367 |
| 1885 | — | — | 34 | #289 |
| 1884 | — | — | 21 | #395 |
| 1883 | — | — | 26 | #330 |
| 1882 | — | — | 31 | #312 |
| 1881 | — | — | 35 | #269 |
| 1880 | — | — | 25 | #349 |
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).