Seeley
#6,388 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Seeley has been given to 676 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #6,388 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 40 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 75% boys, 25% girls all-time.
Babies named Seeley, 2025
1 in 237,000
Seeley 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Seeley over time
In 2025, Seeley went to 36% girls and 64% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Seeley?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 122,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,388
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Seeley sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Seeley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Seeleys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Seeley was born before 2016 — so the typical Seeley is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 67.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 499
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 67.6% of all recorded uses (345).
Is Seeley 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
- −255
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,058
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,248
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.38×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 35.0%
- Peak was 2016 (40)
- Years since peak
- 9
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.5% average annual change
Spellings of Seeley
Seeley is not the most common spelling — Wesley is, with 86.3% against Seeley's 0.18%.
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.
Where Seeley is used
Across 1910–2025, Seeley was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,973,823 across all states with data. It was least common in Iowa (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Iowa1 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. Seeley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Seeley around the world
Where Seeley 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 & Wales2011–2025#5,137in 2025
- France2017–2019#5,780in 2019
- Canada2015–2015#2,735in 2015
- South Australia2009–2009#708in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Seeley by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Seeley
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Seeley
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.