See
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
See has been given to 395 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1982, with 34 recorded.
Babies named See, 1997
1 in 259,000
See over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is See?
See had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1997
- 1 in 259,000
- 14 of 3,624,676 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 124,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1997
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 179,461 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where See sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1997 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 179,461 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another See. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as See was born before 1988 — so the typical See is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 58.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 395
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 58.7% of all recorded uses (232).
Is See 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1982 (34)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.7% average annual change
Where See is used
Across 1910–2025, See was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 84,962 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Minnesota1 in 50,000
- 2California1 in 100,000
- 3Wisconsin1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. See has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
See around the world
Where See 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.
- South Australia2009–2009#818in 2009
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
See by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to See
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for See
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.