Sekou — #4455 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Sekou

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,083 babies named Sekou between 1970 and 2024, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Sekou currently holds the #4455 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 38 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sekou performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 274 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Sekou shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 301 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Sekou in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sekou 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 1,083 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.