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Seaborn

Boys' name

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

Seaborn has been given to 526 babies in the U.S. since 1882. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1920, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Seaborn, 1990

1 in 790,000

Seaborn over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Seaborn: meaning, origin, and history

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

surname transfer

What Seaborn means

Seaborn is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Seaborn is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Seaborn is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 526 boys were recorded with the name Seaborn between 1882 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1920; its best national rank was #738 in 1887.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Seaborn?

Seaborn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1990
1 in 790,000
5 of 3,949,959 births
Among boys only
1 in 411,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1990
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
547,582 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Seaborn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 547,582 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Seaborn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Seaborns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Seaborn was born before 1929 — so the typical Seaborn is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
83
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 23.2% of all recorded uses (122).

Is Seaborn rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1920 (21)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#738
1887

Where Seaborn is used

Across 1910–2025, Seaborn was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 55,884 across all states with data. It was least common in Alabama (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 33,333
  2. 2Alabama1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Seaborn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Seaborn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#738
1887
Peak year
1920
21 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
526
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Seaborn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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