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Seda

Girl · seh-DAH · Arabic

Seda is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “voice, echo”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).

What does Seda mean?

Arabic: Turkish seda, via Persian; also used by Armenians

“voice, echo”

In Turkish seda is a poetic word for a voice or echo; the name is also popular among Armenian families.

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seh-DAH

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Is Seda a girl's or a boy's name?

Seda is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Seda in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1996, with 8 girls.

1996Busiest: 8 in 19962016
Seda in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20163#6,009
20151#7,629
20140–
20130–
20120–
20110–
20100–
20094#4,795
20080–
20070–
20063#5,259
20050–
20040–
20033#4,560
20025#3,047
20014#3,427
20005#2,907
19994#3,374
19984#3,310
19974#3,345
19968#2,012

How popular is Seda in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,913among girls
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 200,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Seda, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1986, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1984.

Half of all the girls named Seda in the US since 1880 were born between 1990 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.

1984Busiest: 13 in 19862025
Seda in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#10,913
20245#15,288
20230–
20229#10,377
20217#12,201
20200–
20190–
20180–
20170–
20160–
20155#16,413
20140–
20135#16,542
20128#12,193
20115#16,756
20100–
20096#15,236
20080–
200710#10,814
20060–
20059#10,915
20040–
20037#12,401
20020–
20015#15,345
20007#11,794
19990–
19987#11,132
19970–
19969#8,807
19958#9,548
19945#13,423
19938#9,552
19927#10,471
19917#10,263
19905#12,952
19898#8,755
19886#10,381
19870–
198613#5,456
198511#6,029
19846#9,139

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