Sedona
Sedona was given to 132 girls in 2025, #1,591 among girls’ names; 2,381 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,360 Americans named Sedona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 5 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sedona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sedona mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sedona is “a female given name.”
(given name): Originally coined by Sedona Schnebly’s mother.
(city): From the given name of Sedona Schnebly (1877-1950).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sedona?
#1,591 among girls’ names, 2025
Sedona rose from #2,583 in 2015 to #1,591 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 39.2 to 82.1 per million.
132 babies in 2025, the peak
Sedona peaked in 2025, when 132 girls were given it, #1,591 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 119 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 132 | #1,591 | 82.1 |
| 2024 | 119 | #1,714 | 73.4 |
| 2023 | 118 | #1,747 | 73.5 |
| 2022 | 129 | #1,644 | 78.7 |
| 2021 | 95 | #2,043 | 57.9 |
| 2020 | 91 | #2,048 | 56.3 |
| 2019 | 90 | #2,104 | 53.6 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,735 | 37.0 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,629 | 38.8 |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,693 | 36.7 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,583 | 39.2 |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,219 | 28.5 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,836 | 22.8 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,087 | 31.2 |
| 2011 | 51 | #3,261 | 29.0 |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,895 | 33.8 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,667 | 37.6 |
| 2008 | 91 | #2,202 | 48.1 |
| 2007 | 76 | #2,479 | 39.5 |
| 2006 | 76 | #2,457 | 40.0 |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,851 | 31.4 |
| 2004 | 78 | #2,254 | 42.5 |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,487 | 36.1 |
| 2002 | 76 | #2,193 | 42.3 |
| 2001 | 62 | #2,505 | 34.4 |
| 2000 | 69 | #2,269 | 38.0 |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,462 | 33.3 |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,452 | 32.3 |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,545 | 29.3 |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,702 | 26.2 |
| 1995 | 39 | #3,004 | 22.2 |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,083 | 21.3 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,777 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,999 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,861 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,134 | 3.7 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,051 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,590 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sedona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sedona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sedona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sedona, and how old are they?
2,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,381 Americans ever recorded as Sedona. The median Sedona alive today is 15 years old; half are between 5 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,636 people named Sedona (1,631 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,705 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 193 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,120 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Sedona born?
The states with the most babies named Sedona are California, Arizona and Texas, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 17 | #1,402 | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 12 | #571 | 7.3× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,232 | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 6 | #893 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,117 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,604 | 0.3× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #911 | 0.3× |
| New York | 5 | #2,376 | 0.1× |
| Oregon | 5 | #719 | 0.2× |
Where Sedona is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sedona is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1987 it was given 7.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sedona with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,952 babies since 1880, Sedona is the most given (81% of them). In 2025 it was given to 132 of their 132 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sedona
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sedona and names like it
- Compare Sedona and SedoniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSedona peaked in 2025.
- Arizona’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sedona since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Sedona.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sedona alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.