Sequoia
Sequoia is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 74 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 740.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2002181 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1958
- 4,315people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,839 girls have been named Sequoia in the United States since 1958, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2002, with 181 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 30%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 476 boys have also been given it, 11% of the total.
By decade
In 2002, its biggest year
Sequoia was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2002 were Emily, Madison, Hannah, Emma and Alexis. See all of 2002.
Names that rose and fell with Sequoia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ayshapeak 2024
- Sadiapeak 2001
- Acaciapeak 2002
- Imanpeak 1996
- Asyapeak 2001
- Hebapeak 2007
- Denissepeak 2020
- Katerinapeak 1998
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.