Unisex name · since 2022
Seoul
Since 2022, U.S. Social Security records show 16 babies named Seoul, peaking in 2025. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #49,173 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,701 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 16
- born since 2022
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Seoul is the #14701 most popular unisex name in the U.S. today, with 16 recorded since 2022.
Seoul has 16 recorded births among girls since 2022, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #14701 as of the latest data, more common than 15% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2022 to 2025.
- #49,173 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,701 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 16 born since 2022
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Seoul ranks #49,173 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,701 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 16 born since 2022, peaking in the 2020s.
- #49,173 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,701 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 16
- born since 2022
- 2020s
- peak decade
Seoul's 16 recorded births place it above 31.73% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Seoul compares
16 6th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Seoul's all-time total is 96% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Seoul | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 16 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 6 | 21 | 19,840 |
Seoul's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Seoul's full recorded timeline at 2023, 69% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 31% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2022, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 6 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Seoul popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 4 years of records
Seoul popularity over time - boys
9 total births recorded since 2024 (Seoul as boys' name)
Seoul by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (16 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Seoul's strongest decade.
16 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Seoul births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
16 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 16 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Seoul: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2025)
Similar record span (~3 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, 2022–2025 (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 Seoul 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.