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Set

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Set has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 1997. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2022, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Set, 2022

1 in 484,000

Set over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Set: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Set means

Set is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Set is used in Faroese and Swedish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 27 boys were recorded with the name Set between 1997 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2022; its best national rank was #10,541 in 1997.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Set?

Set had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 484,000
7 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 249,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,262 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Set 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 2022 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 335,262 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Set. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Set was born before 2019 — so the typical Set is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
44.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
27
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Set 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
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Not ranked then
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
0%
Peak was 2022 (7)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,541
1997

Set by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,541
1997
Peak year
2022
7 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
27
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Set

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

SetiSetheSetonSethanJosetSetsuoSethanielSettimioSeth

Sibling names for Set

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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