Seona

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Seona: Recorded since 1989, it reached #358 in 1997, and it stood at #3,695 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
20times a registrar ranked it
36years from first to last
#358highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1999	#3900
2000	#2167
2001	#3998
2002	#3409
2007	#5201
2011	#5785
2021	#3961
2023	#5687
2024	#3695

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 10 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 1999: #528 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #3900 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1989–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1989
First recorded at #503 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1989 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3695 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Seona appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 10 ranked years and 41 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1989.

Seona 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.

Seona'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 · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#2167 (2000)	#3695 (2024)	10 of 29	41 (1996–2024)	7 (2000)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#503 (1989)	#409 (1990)	#873 (2017)	9 of 29	31 (1989–2017)	5 (1990)

Seona by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Seona in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	7	2 of 10	4
2000s	17	4 of 10	4
2010s	3	1 of 10	3
2020s	14	3 of 10	5

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

Seona 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 1989 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #358 in Northern Ireland in 1997.

Seona'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	female	#3695	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#358	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#587	4	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#528	3	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#450	4	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#409	5	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#503	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 1989 and 2024, ranked in 19 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #358, first reached in 1997.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 7 births, registered in England and Wales in 2000.

Its record falls into 11 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 8 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.

5decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 5 decades →
4 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
11separate stretches the record falls into10 or more separate stretches →
3 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period2 to 3 years missing →
#3,695position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
8 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 6 to 10 years →
7births registered in its largest year, 2000Under 25 births →

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.

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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.

Karley · #358, 14y
Kruz · #358, 17y
Bianka · #359, 19y
Blanka · #359, 18y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Anneka · #356, 28y
Kelli · #362, 15y
Evanna · #364, 22y
Zarah · #351, 33y

Seona was ranked #358 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 1997. 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.

Seona 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 Seona without appearing here.

Seona moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.
Donna Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.
Evan Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #4709 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.
Geraldine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #4709 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Seona

Luca Compare
In 1998 they stood at #3126 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #1970.
Selma Compare
In 1998 they stood at #3126 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #2444.
Liv Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2167 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #3409 and #2105.
Eabha Compare
In 1998 they stood at #409 and #517 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1999 that had become #528 and #220.

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 1989 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #358 in Northern Ireland in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Seona

Seona at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Seona across 2 official records

Seona by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Seona appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Seona

Seona and the names beside it

Seona moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Seona

Seona at a glance

Seona across 2 official records

Seona by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Seona appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Seona

Seona and the names beside it

Seona moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Seona