Sejal
#6,785 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sejal has been given to 912 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #6,785 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 39 recorded.
Babies named Sejal, 2025
1 in 195,000
Sejal 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sejal?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 195,000
- 17 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 94,500
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,785
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 135,172 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sejal 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sejal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sejals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sejal was born before 2001 — so the typical Sejal is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 25.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 51.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 912
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (229).
Is Sejal 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
- +2,672
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,112
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,148
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.13×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 43.6%
- Peak was 2002 (39)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.6% average annual change
Spellings of Sejal
Sejal is not the most common spelling — Deja is, with 31.8% against Sejal's 1.8%.
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 Sejal is used
Across 1910–2025, Sejal was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 314,623 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New Jersey1 in —
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. Sejal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sejal around the world
Where Sejal 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 & Wales1996–2024#5,892in 2024
- Canada1994–2023#3,391in 2023
- South Australia1985–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sejal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sejal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sejal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.