Seth
Seth is ranked 558th among boys in 2024 (530 births). Its best rank was 63rd, in 2000.
- Rank in 2024
- #558down 32 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5300.03% of boys
- Peak year
- 20006,717 births
- Best rank
- #63in 2000
- Since 1880
- 165,273people given the name
The story in the numbers
165,273 boys have been named Seth in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2000, with 6,717 births — 0.34% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 250 → 558).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 2000s alone account for 29%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 22 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Seth | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 270 | |
| 1890s | 168 | |
| 1900s | 181 | |
| 1910s | 642 | |
| 1920s | 874 | |
| 1930s | 612 | |
| 1940s | 852 | |
| 1950s | 2,101 | |
| 1960s | 3,787 | |
| 1970s | 16,586 | |
| 1980s | 31,129 | |
| 1990s | 42,209 | |
| 2000s | 48,161 | |
| 2010s | 14,668 | |
| 2020s | 3,033 |
In 2000, its biggest year
Seth was the 63rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2000 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2000.
Names that rose and fell with Seth
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Vivekpeak 2004
- Dajuanpeak 2001
- Nathanialpeak 1999
- Garettpeak 2000
- Nicklaspeak 2002
- Vinaypeak 2003
- Jarettpeak 1998
- Rigobertopeak 2001
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.