boys:
988 births since 1882
#3604 (21st percentile)
overall:
988 births since 1882
#6751 (13th percentile)
The name Seldon is the #6,751 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 988 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 12.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,604 (21.4% percentile) for all time with 988 births since 1882.
Seldon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (first recorded for boys in 1882). Birth data for Seldon is available in 84 out of the 125 years between 1882 and 2006. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Seldon reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 6.0% percentile (ranked #472) with 38 births per million. The name was most common in 1887, with 64 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Seldon".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Seldon is pronounced as SEHL-duhn, which has 2 syllables.
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