Unisex name · since 1915
Sellers
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.
- #25,480 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 32
- born since 1915
- 1910s
- peak decade
Sellers is not among the current top-ranked boys names; 32 have been recorded since 1915.
Sellers has 32 recorded births among boys since 1915, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 1910s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1915 to 2022.
- #25,480 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- 32 born since 1915
- 1910s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Sellers ranks #25,480 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 32 born since 1915, peaking in the 1910s.
- #25,480 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 32
- born since 1915
- 1910s
- peak decade
Sellers's 32 recorded births place it above 43.9% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Sellers's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Sellers's SSA record in two at 1935 and the more recent half accounts for 47% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 53%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1915, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1917 peak of 6, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Sellers popularity over time - boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1915–2022
- Peak year (1917)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 108 years of records
Sellers popularity over time - girls
11 total births recorded since 2024 (Sellers as girls' name)
Sellers by decade
1910s is the heaviest window (17 births, 53% of the file).
1910s was Sellers's strongest decade.
17 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 53% of all-time use.
Sellers births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s
1910s
17 births
- 1930s 5
1930s
5 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s 5
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1910s at 17 births (53% of all-time use).
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- Sellers's decade-level peak was the 1910s (17 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Sellers: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1917)
Similar record span (~107 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1915–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Sellers draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.