Seydou — boys' name
108 babies named Seydou in U.S. Social Security records since 2000, with the highest year being 2005. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
49% of everyone ever named Seydou was born in this single decade.
10 babies were named Seydou in 2005 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Seydou
The Social Security Administration has registered 108 babies named Seydou between 2000 and 2022, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Seydou currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 10 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Seydou performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 53 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Seydou shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Seydou in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Seydou 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 108 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.
Seydou at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Seydou popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–2000
- Peak year (2005)
- 10
- Annual births at peak — across 23 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
108 total births across 23 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2005 with 10 births in a single year.
Seydou by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 53 births that decade — 49% of Seydou's all-time total
Seydou decade highlights
- Peak decade 53 births
- Runner-up 42 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Seydou's strongest decade
53 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 49% of all-time use.
Seydou by state
Where Seydou concentrates geographically — total births since 2000
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 4.6% |
5 of 108 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 4.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 4.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2000–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.