Sequoia
Sequoia is given to both girls and boys: 97 girls and 14 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,987 among girls’ names and #6,391 among boys’, #3,308 among all names counting both); 4,432 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,360 Americans named Sequoia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 12 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sequoia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sequoia?
#1,987 among girls’ names, 2025
Sequoia rose from #2,470 in 2015 to #1,987 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 41.5 to 60.4 per million.
193 babies in 2002, the peak
Sequoia peaked in 2002, when 193 babies were given it (181 girls, #1,146 among girls’ names). The 111 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 58% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 97 | #1,987 | 14 | #6,391 |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,382 | 10 | #8,216 |
| 2023 | 81 | #2,284 | 18 | #5,418 |
| 2022 | 92 | #2,101 | 15 | #6,092 |
| 2021 | 81 | #2,282 | 23 | #4,467 |
| 2020 | 79 | #2,275 | 18 | #5,191 |
| 2019 | 92 | #2,066 | 16 | #5,754 |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,384 | 12 | #7,050 |
| 2017 | 80 | #2,316 | 19 | #5,073 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,734 | 13 | #6,658 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 74 | #2,470 | 13 | #6,609 |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,576 | 13 | #6,564 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,897 | 13 | #6,550 |
| 2012 | 71 | #2,562 | 10 | #8,035 |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,660 | 10 | #7,959 |
| 2010 | 79 | #2,402 | 14 | #6,304 |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,588 | 15 | #6,034 |
| 2008 | 81 | #2,396 | 15 | #6,007 |
| 2007 | 102 | #2,014 | 10 | #8,064 |
| 2006 | 103 | #1,956 | 16 | #5,478 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,874 | 17 | #4,993 |
| 2004 | 134 | #1,514 | 18 | #4,757 |
| 2003 | 142 | #1,408 | 15 | #5,220 |
| 2002 | 181 | #1,146 | 12 | #6,003 |
| 2001 | 135 | #1,409 | 19 | #4,261 |
| 2000 | 109 | #1,628 | 11 | #6,229 |
| 1999 | 97 | #1,702 | 19 | #3,953 |
| 1998 | 97 | #1,661 | 12 | #5,401 |
| 1997 | 94 | #1,675 | 8 | #7,160 |
| 1996 | 93 | #1,650 | 10 | #5,892 |
| 1995 | 106 | #1,497 | 8 | #6,863 |
| 1994 | 91 | #1,656 | 8 | #6,869 |
| 1993 | 110 | #1,456 | 9 | #6,134 |
| 1992 | 111 | #1,443 | 5 | #9,569 |
| 1991 | 68 | #2,025 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 93 | #1,610 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 77 | #1,763 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 75 | #1,717 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 74 | #1,658 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,104 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,310 | 5 | #7,396 |
| 1984 | 47 | #2,139 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,406 | 5 | #7,151 |
| 1982 | 30 | #3,003 | 5 | #7,186 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,223 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,110 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,916 | 7 | #5,267 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,481 | 5 | #6,605 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,884 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,548 | 6 | #5,483 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,803 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,744 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,131 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,125 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,855 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Sequoia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,432 Americans recorded as Sequoia, 89% are girls and 11% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sequoia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sequoia, and how old are they?
4,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,432 Americans ever recorded as Sequoia. The median Sequoia alive today is 23 years old; half are between 12 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 3,250 people named Sequoia (2,865 women and girls, 385 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,802 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 135 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,150 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,870 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,210 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Sequoia born?
The states with the most babies named Sequoia are California, Wisconsin and Oregon, with 86% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Wisconsin and Oregon are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 21 | #1,222 | 1.5× |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #775 | 0.6× |
| Oregon | 5 | #720 | 2.3× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,386 | 0.5× |
Where Sequoia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sequoia is most over-represented in Oregon: since 1958 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sequoia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,660 babies since 1880, Sequoia is the most given (78% of them). In 2025 it was given to 111 of their 118 babies (94%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sequoia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sequoia and names like it
- Compare Sequoia and SequoyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSequoia peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sequoia since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Sequoia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sequoia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.