girls:
495 births since 1967
#5221 (9th percentile)
boys:
164.7k births since 1880
#207 (96th percentile)
overall:
165.2k births since 1880
#451 (94th percentile)
The name Seth is the #451 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 165,228 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 94.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #207 (95.5% percentile) for all time with 164,733 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,221 (8.6% percentile) for all time with 495 births since 1967.
Seth has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1967 for girls).
The name Seth has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Seth reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 92.4% percentile (ranked #63) with 3,216 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 3,216 births per million (ranked 92.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2003, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Seth ranks #462 for boys (49.3% percentile) with 307 births per million, which is 9.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Seth reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 3.6% percentile (ranked #749) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 18 births per million (ranked 3.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Seth".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Seth. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Seth is pronounced as sehth, which has 1 syllables.
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