Sethaniel
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sethaniel has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2001. 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 2001, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Sethaniel, 2005
1 in 769,000
Sethaniel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sethaniel?
Sethaniel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2005
- 1 in 769,000
- 5 of 3,844,258 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 399,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2005
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,928 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sethaniel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sethaniel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sethaniels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sethaniel was born before 2001 — so the typical Sethaniel is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 11
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).
Is Sethaniel 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
- —
- 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 2001 (6)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Sethaniel
Sethaniel is not the most common spelling — Nathaniel is, with 99.6% against Sethaniel's <0.01%.
Sethaniel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sethaniel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sethaniel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.