Sekou
#3,367 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sekou has been given to 1,118 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #3,367 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 38 recorded.
Babies named Sekou, 2025
1 in 94,700
Sekou 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sekou?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 94,700
- 35 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 48,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,367
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 65,655 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sekou 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 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sekou. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sekous were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sekou was born before 2004 — so the typical Sekou is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 24.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 58.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,118
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (274).
Is Sekou 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
- +1,173
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,050
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,657
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.84×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 92.1%
- Peak was 2011 (38)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.7% average annual change
Spellings of Sekou
Sekou is not the most common spelling — Kekoa is, with 42.2% against Sekou's 23.0%.
Where Sekou is used
Across 1910–2025, Sekou was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 136,723 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 50,000
- 2Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5Minnesota1 in —
- 6New Jersey1 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. Sekou has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sekou around the world
Where Sekou 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 & Wales2006–2024#4,271in 2024
- France1966–2025#457in 2025
- Canada2007–2023#2,931in 2023
- South Australia2007–2012#771in 2012
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.
Sekou by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sekou
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sekou
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.