Seb

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Seb: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Seb: Recorded every year since 2001, its highest recorded position is #404, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
24years from first to last
#404highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 2001–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2001	#2220
2002	#2005
2003	#3467
2004	#2304
2005	#1991
2006	#1643
2007	#1885
2008	#1206
2009	#1099
2010	#1911
2011	#999
2012	#866
2013	#821
2014	#889
2015	#790
2016	#870
2017	#833
2018	#619
2019	#678
2020	#699
2021	#825
2022	#1058
2023	#874
2024	#1162

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 2001 to 2024.

In 2024: #404 among boys in Northern Ireland, #1162 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2001–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2001
First recorded at #2220 among boys in England and Wales in 2001 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1162 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Seb appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 24 years beginning in 2001, and has registered 630 births with the name.

Seb across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Seb's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2220 (2001)	#619 (2018)	#1162 (2024)	24 of 24	630 (2001–2024)	58 (2018)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#764 (2019)	#741 (2020)	#770 (2023)	5 of 5	15 (2019–2023)	3 (2019)

Seb by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Seb in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	92	9 of 10	10
2010sbusiest	365	10 of 10	37
2020s	173	5 of 10	35

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 37 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Seb appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2001 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #404 in Northern Ireland in 2024.

Seb's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1162	24	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#874	36	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1058	27	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#825	38	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#699	48	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#678	50	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#619	58	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#833	38	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#870	36	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#790	40	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#889	33	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#821	37	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#866	35	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#999	27	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1911	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1099	23	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1206	20	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1885	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1643	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1991	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2304	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2005	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#404	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2001 and 2024, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #404, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 58 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2019, and 23 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Seanie · #305, 14y
Seanna · #227, 26y
Sebastian · #6, 58y
Sebastiano · #1796, 23y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aira · #404, 19y
Aydin · #404, 29y
Ren · #404, 21y
Royce · #404, 27y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Aira · #404, 19y
Faelan · #404, 8y
Ren · #404, 21y
Aayat · #405, 19y

Seb was ranked #404 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Seb and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Seb without appearing here.

Seb moved ahead of

Brent Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1885 and #1756 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1206 and #3687.
Isak Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1885 and #1440 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1206 and #3687.
Shannon Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2304 and #2304 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1643 and #4052.
Henrik Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1885 and #1885 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1206 and #3158.

Moved ahead of Seb

Mathias Compare
In 2016 they stood at #870 and #928 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #833 and #709.
Aksel Compare
In 2023 they stood at #874 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1162 and #1132.

Moved the opposite way to Seb

Aaron Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Seb went from #2220 to #1162 while Aaron went from #40 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Seb went from #2220 to #1162 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Seb went from #2220 to #1162 while Alan went from #270 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Seb went from #2220 to #1162 while Alex went from #45 to #171.

Moved the same way as Seb

Albie Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Seb went from #2220 to #1162 and Albie from #728 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Seb went from #2220 to #1162 and Alfie from #54 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Seb went from #2220 to #1162 and Alfred from #149 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Seb went from #2220 to #1162 and Archie from #60 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2001 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #404 in Northern Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Seb

Seb at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Seb across 2 official records

Seb by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Seb appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Seb

Seb and the names beside it

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Seb at a glance

Seb across 2 official records

Seb by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Seb appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Seb

Seb and the names beside it

Seb moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Seb

Moved the opposite way to Seb

Moved the same way as Seb