Seeley — #5911 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Seeley

The Social Security Administration has registered 496 babies named Seeley between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Seeley currently holds the #5911 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 40 babies received it in a single year. Seeley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 158 additional births since 1996.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Seeley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 345 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Seeley shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Iowa. In total, SSA state-level files list Seeley in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Seeley in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 496 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.