Seylah — #4020 US girls' name
251 babies named Seylah in U.S. Social Security records since 2009, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 77% of names given to girls today.
61% of everyone ever named Seylah was born in this single decade.
38 babies were named Seylah in 2023 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Seylah
The Social Security Administration has registered 251 babies named Seylah between 2009 and 2024, spanning 16 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Seylah currently holds the #4020 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 38 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Seylah performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 154 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Seylah shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 20 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Seylah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Seylah 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 251 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.
Seylah at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Seylah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2009
- Peak year (2023)
- 38
- Annual births at peak — across 16 years of records
Currently ranks #4020 among girls.
251 total births across 16 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2023 with 38 births in a single year.
Seylah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 154 births that decade — 61% of Seylah's all-time total
Seylah decade highlights
- Peak decade 154 births
- Runner-up 88 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Seylah's strongest decade
154 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 61% of all-time use.
Seylah by state
Where Seylah concentrates geographically — total births since 2009
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 20 | 8.0% |
20 of 251 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 8.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 8.0% 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, 2009–2024 (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.