Seldon
About 988 American babies have been named Seldon since 1882, most of them around 1916. It has not appeared in the national data since 2006. About 290 Seldons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 64.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Seldon
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 988
- Estimated living today
- 290
- Median age today
- 64
- Peak year
- 1916
- Best rank
- 1,096th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1882
How old the living Seldons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 988 babies given the name since 1882, about 290 are alive — 30 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1961 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Seldons
- Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872)African American artist
People named Seldon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Seldon is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Seldon is most concentrated in Kentucky (50.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1916
The most popular boys’ names the year Seldon peaked:
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Seldon against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.