Sema — girls' name

What the Data Says About Sema

The Social Security Administration has registered 213 babies named Sema between 1930 and 2023, spanning 94 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sema currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 12 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sema performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 65 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Sema shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Sema in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sema 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 213 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.