Seneca — #4753 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Seneca

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,741 babies named Seneca between 1975 and 2024, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Seneca currently holds the #4753 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 179 babies received it in a single year. Seneca is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,732 additional births since 1956.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Seneca performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 520 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Seneca shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 122 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Seneca in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Seneca 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 1,741 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.