Seth

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Seth boys named Seth

By the numbers

Total US births

166,288

Estimated living today

156,000

Median age today

28

Peak year

2000

Best rank

63rd

Rank in 2025

581st

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

495 / 165,793

How old the living Seths are

born that year still alive today

Of the 166,288 babies given the name since 1880, about 156,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 24,000 of them are children and 2,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 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.

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

from Biblical Hebrew שֵׁת.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Seths

• Seth MacFarlane (born 1973)American writer, actor, and producer
• Seth Rogen (born 1982)Canadian actor, comedian, and filmmaker
• Seth Green (born 1974)American actor
• Seth Rollins (born 1986)American professional wrestler and actor
• Seth Meyers (born 1973)American comedian, television host and actor
• Seth Godin (born 1960)American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
• Seth Barnes Nicholson (1891–1963)American astronomer
• Seth Gilliam (born 1968)American actor

People named Seth with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Seth is most common

• CA12,827
• TX12,000
• OH9,559
• NY8,890
• PA8,015
• FL5,694
• MI5,586
• IL5,456
• IN5,376
• NC4,996

Relative to how many babies each state records, Seth is most concentrated in Alaska (2.7×), Vermont (2.2×), Wyoming (2.1×), Utah (2.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2000

The most popular boys’ names the year Seth peaked:

• Jacob
• Michael
• Matthew
• Joshua
• Christopher
• Nicholas

All the names of 2000

Seth elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Seth: rank by region

In 2025, Seth was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2020, Seth was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2023, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Seth appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (274th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Seth among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.