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Seda

#11,764 in 2025Girls' name

Voice, echo

Seda has been given to 196 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #11,764 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1986, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Seda, 2025

1 in 414,000

Seda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Seda: meaning, origin, and history

Voice, echo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Seda means

Seda means “voice, echo”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Seda is used in Turkish.

Origin, language, and formation

Seda is used in English and Turkish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Սեդա.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 196 girls were recorded with the name Seda between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1986; its best national rank was #5,689 in 1986.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,673 in 2015 to #11,764 in 2025.

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 Seda?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,764
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Seda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Seda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sedas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Seda was born before 1998 — so the typical Seda is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
28.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
196
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 28.6% of all recorded uses (56).

Is Seda 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
+5,519
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,909
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.60×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
61.5%
Peak was 1986 (13)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,689
1986

Spellings of Seda

Seda is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 17.2% against Seda's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Seda around the world

Where Seda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016
  • France
    1973–2025
    #7,167
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1983–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Seda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,764
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,689
1986
Peak year
1986
13 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
196
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Seda

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

SedraJedaZedaSednaBedaAsedaOvedaRhedaKaedaWedaZaedaOledaNedaSedaliaVaedaSaeedaSedonaReedaBredaFledaLedaLovedaAlvedaVeneda

Sibling names for Seda

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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