Meaning not yet researched.
Seven: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 191 in 2025. Its best rank was #755 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #755 in 2022; #1,122 in 2025. About 76% of babies named Seven in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,122 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #755.
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Seven: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 191 boys in 2025. Peak: #755 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 337 (2022).
In 2025, 191 US boys were named Seven, making it the 1,122nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 228 places from #894 in 2024. That is 74 fewer than the 265 boys named Seven in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #755, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 337. For comparison, it was #2,105 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 60 US girls were named Seven, making it the 2,857th most common girls’ name of the year, down 400 places from #2,457 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 74 girls named Seven in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,247, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 84. For comparison, it was #4,136 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Seven in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 5 babies. In all, 4,633 US babies have been given the name, 26% of them girls and 74% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,045 babies named Seven.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,156 US boys were named Seven; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 337. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,943 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Seven ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #587 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sevyn (6,239 babies since 1880) and Sevynn (410 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ziven 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ziven (86).
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 Seven 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 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 8 | #587 | — |
| Georgia | 17 | #620 | — |
| Arkansas | 5 | #620 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #860 | — |
| New Jersey | 7 | #898 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #929 | #1,064 |
| Florida | 15 | #950 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #994 | — |
| Texas | 23 | #1,036 | — |
| New York | 12 | #1,044 | #1,453 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,070 | — |
| California | 18 | #1,146 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,236 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,253 | #1,277 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,451 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,857 | 191 | #1,122 |
| 2024 | 74 | #2,457 | 265 | #894 |
| 2023 | 71 | #2,512 | 310 | #799 |
| 2022 | 84 | #2,247 | 337 | #755 |
| 2021 | 72 | #2,482 | 272 | #862 |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,547 | 241 | #926 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,848 | 209 | #1,003 |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,959 | 124 | #1,415 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,295 | 113 | #1,496 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,767 | 94 | #1,685 |
| 2015 | 36 | #4,136 | 67 | #2,105 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,912 | 95 | #1,639 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,564 | 80 | #1,807 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,309 | 80 | #1,846 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,554 | 76 | #1,858 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,949 | 68 | #2,030 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,207 | 86 | #1,771 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,437 | 113 | #1,463 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,199 | 99 | #1,591 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,096 | 61 | #2,145 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,773 | 56 | #2,178 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,689 | 64 | #1,929 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,512 | 47 | #2,302 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,716 | 48 | #2,217 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,914 | 40 | #2,474 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,951 | 43 | #2,288 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,866 | 50 | #1,962 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,034 | 40 | #2,267 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,852 | 22 | #3,331 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,557 | 10 | #5,900 |
| 1995 | — | — | 11 | #5,444 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,297 | 10 | #5,804 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,481 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,642 |
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).