Seward
Seward was last recorded in 1976, when 5 babies were given it; 568 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Seward by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Seward?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,337, in 1976; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1915, the peak
Seward peaked in 1915, when 26 boys were given it, #1,335 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 | #6,337 | 3.2 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,906 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,493 | 3.9 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,521 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,610 | 3.3 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,388 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,463 | 3.4 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,660 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,121 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 5 | #4,132 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 7 | #3,281 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 8 | #3,065 | 4.4 |
| 1946 | 10 | #2,517 | 6.2 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,960 | 5.2 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,970 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,968 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,468 | 8.1 |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,731 | 14.7 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,434 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,305 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,457 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,488 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,594 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,538 | 9.7 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,081 | 13.1 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,325 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,353 | 6.7 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,430 | 10.9 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,440 | 11.2 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,035 | 14.4 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,881 | 8.9 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,543 | 10.8 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,072 | 14.3 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,771 | 18.5 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,590 | 10.9 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,130 | 14.7 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,485 | 11.8 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,437 | 12.2 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,047 | 16.3 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,146 | 14.8 |
| 1917 | 17 | #1,888 | 18.4 |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,836 | 19.1 |
| 1915 | 26 | #1,335 | 30.6 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,480 | 27.5 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,491 | 27.3 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,339 | 32.6 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,959 | 22.1 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,654 | 30.5 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,080 | 54.5 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,192 | 47.0 |
| 1900 | 10 | #895 | 66.5 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,245 | 41.8 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,217 | 42.6 |
| 1894 | 10 | #721 | 86.4 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,231 | 41.0 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,102 | 49.4 |
| 1882 | 7 | #825 | 61.6 |
| 1881 | 5 | #981 | 49.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Seward a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Seward has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Seward: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Seward, and how old are they?
An estimated 81 Americans named Seward and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 191 people named Seward (8 women and girls, 183 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 115 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Seward
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 Seward and names like it
- Compare Seward and GloverBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sSeward peaked in 1915.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Seward since 1910.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Seward.
- Names starting with SMost given first.