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Sequoyah

#12,968 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Possibly hog

Sequoyah has been given to 678 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #12,968 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 23 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 70% girls, 30% boys all-time.

Babies named Sequoyah, 2025

1 in 474,000

Sequoyah over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Sequoyah over time

In 2025, Sequoyah went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19192025

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.

Sequoyah: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly hog

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sequoyah means

Sequoyah may mean “hog”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sequoyah is used in Cherokee.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 477 girls were recorded with the name Sequoyah between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1997; its best national rank was #4,610 in 1991.

In the United States, 201 boys were recorded with the name Sequoyah between 1919 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1999; its best national rank was #4,706 in 1919.

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 Sequoyah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,968
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sequoyah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sequoyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sequoyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sequoyah was born before 1998 — so the typical Sequoyah is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
36.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
477
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 36.7% of all recorded uses (175).

Is Sequoyah 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
+2,026
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
30.4%
Peak was 1997 (23)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,610
1991

Spellings of Sequoyah

Sequoyah is not the most common spelling — Sequoia is, with 89.2% against Sequoyah's 10.8%.

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 Sequoyah is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Sequoyah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 789,926 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 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. Sequoyah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Sequoyah is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Sequoyah was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 475,046 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 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. Sequoyah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sequoyah around the world

Where Sequoyah 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 Australia
    2000–2000
    #727
    in 2000

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sequoyah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,968
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,610
1991
Peak year
1997
23 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
477
Count in 2025
7

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,706
1919
Peak year
1999
15 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
201
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sequoyah

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

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Sibling names for Sequoyah

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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