Sellers — boys' name
32 babies named Sellers in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 1917. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
53% of everyone ever named Sellers was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Sellers in 1917 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sellers
The Social Security Administration has registered 32 babies named Sellers between 1915 and 2022, spanning 108 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Sellers currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1917, when 6 babies received it in a single year. Sellers is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 6 additional births since 2024.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sellers performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 17 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Sellers shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sellers 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 32 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.
Sellers at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sellers popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1915
- Peak year (1917)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 108 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
32 total births across 108 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1917 with 6 births in a single year.
Sellers popularity over time — girls
6 total births recorded since 2024 (Sellers as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Sellers accounts for 16% of total recorded use across both genders.
Sellers by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 17 births that decade — 53% of Sellers's all-time total
Sellers decade highlights
- Peak decade 17 births
- Runner-up 5 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Sellers's strongest decade
17 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 53% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1915–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.