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Seaborn vs Seana

American parents have registered 1,905 Seanas since 1880, against 526 Seaborns. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Seaborn against Seana, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Seaborn Seana

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 117 years in which either name was published, Seana for 65 years and Seaborn for 52 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Seaborn Seana
Total US births 5261,905
Most in one year 2162
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1201,800
Median age today 7340
Peak year 19201969
Best rank 1,694th boys1,499th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18821955
Girls / boys 0 / 5261,905 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Seaborns alive today are over 73; half the Seanas are over 40. That is 33 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Seaborn and Seana.