How popular is “Seneca” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Seneca” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Seneca” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Seneca” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Seneca” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1956	10	0.000002425	10		100%
1957	25	0.000005949	25		100%
1958	5	0.00000121	5		100%
1959	8	0.000001924	8		100%
1960	16	0.000003852	16		100%
1961	5	0.000001207	5		100%
1971	7	0.000002039	7		100%
1972	6	0.000001909	6		100%
1973	8	0.000002652	8		100%
1974	11	0.000003618	11		100%
1975	22	0.000007286	15	7	36%
1976	131	0.000043173	24	107	-63%
1977	219	0.000068944	40	179	-63%
1978	154	0.000048521	37	117	-52%
1979	147	0.000044184	37	110	-50%
1980	198	0.000057483	51	147	-48%
1981	124	0.000035845	42	82	-32%
1982	101	0.000028792	43	58	-15%
1983	81	0.000023388	23	58	-43%
1984	71	0.000020351	32	39	-10%
1985	55	0.00001541	26	29	-5%
1986	44	0.00001237	17	27	-23%
1987	31	0.000008598	16	15	3%
1988	39	0.000010555	27	12	38%
1989	35	0.000009104	21	14	20%
1990	49	0.000012397	34	15	39%
1991	36	0.000009242	26	10	44%
1992	33	0.000008591	25	8	52%
1993	39	0.000010344	28	11	44%
1994	52	0.000013987	40	12	54%
1995	62	0.00001693	53	9	71%
1996	46	0.000012612	29	17	26%
1997	68	0.000018755	38	30	12%
1998	55	0.000014953	39	16	42%
1999	42	0.00001137	28	14	33%
2000	67	0.000017725	37	30	10%
2001	65	0.000017364	38	27	17%
2002	60	0.00001605	29	31	-3%
2003	71	0.000018673	45	26	27%
2004	71	0.000018582	42	29	18%
2005	68	0.000017686	39	29	15%
2006	86	0.000021738	52	34	21%
2007	81	0.000020262	40	41	-1%
2008	66	0.000016791	40	26	21%
2009	66	0.000017277	39	27	18%
2010	58	0.000015694	31	27	7%
2011	48	0.000013123	31	17	29%
2012	41	0.00001121	30	11	46%
2013	49	0.000013441	29	20	18%
2014	48	0.000012951	28	20	17%
2015	51	0.00001378	33	18	29%
2016	63	0.000017172	33	30	5%
2017	47	0.000013142	25	22	6%
2018	58	0.000016497	34	24	17%
2019	38	0.000010948	15	23	-21%
2020	51	0.000015267	34	17	33%
2021	48	0.000014168	36	12	50%
2022	49	0.000014484	29	20	18%
2023	42	0.000012684	26	16	24%
2024	46	0.00001382	25	21	9%

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