Sequoia — #2438 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Sequoia

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,839 babies named Sequoia between 1958 and 2024, spanning 67 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sequoia currently holds the #2438 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 181 babies received it in a single year. Sequoia is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 476 additional births since 1976.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sequoia performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,163 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Sequoia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 814 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Oregon. In total, SSA state-level files list Sequoia in 25 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sequoia 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 3,839 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.