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Sekani

#1,187 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Laugh

Sekani has been given to 1,619 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #1,187 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 252 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 82% boys, 18% girls all-time.

Babies named Sekani, 2025

1 in 19,200

Sekani over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Sekani over time

In 2025, Sekani went to 21% girls and 79% boys.

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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.

Sekani: meaning, origin, and history

Laugh

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sekani means

Sekani means “laugh”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,333 boys were recorded with the name Sekani between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 252 in 2019; its best national rank was #874 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,033 in 2020 to #1,187 in 2025.

In the United States, 286 girls were recorded with the name Sekani between 2019 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 67 in 2019; its best national rank was #2,628 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,592 in 2020 to #3,377 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.

How common is Sekani?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 19,200
173 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 9,870
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,187
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
13,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sekani 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 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 13,284 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sekani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sekanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sekani was born before 2022 — so the typical Sekani is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
79.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,333
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 79.4% of all recorded uses (1,059).

Is Sekani 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
+42
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−154
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
68.7%
Peak was 2019 (252)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
299.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#874
2019

Spellings of Sekani

Sekani is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 97.7% against Sekani's 0.31%.

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 Sekani is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Sekani was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 4,000 boys, against 1 in 12,947 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 50,000).

225 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 4,000
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 5,556
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 6,250
  4. 4Georgia1 in 6,667
  5. 5Michigan1 in 8,333
  6. 6Virginia1 in 9,091
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 10,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 11,111

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.

Where Sekani is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Sekani was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 982,535 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Missouri1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Sekani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sekani around the world

Where Sekani 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
    2019–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    2020–2024
    #5,471
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2020–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Sekani by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,187
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 154
Best rank ever
#874
2019
Peak year
2019
252 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,333
Count in 2025
173

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,377
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 215
Best rank ever
#2,628
2019
Peak year
2019
67 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
286
Count in 2025
46

Names similar to Sekani

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

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Sibling names for Sekani

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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