Meaning and history
Seneca is a Roman cognomen derived from Latin senectus, meaning “old.” It was borne by a Roman orator born in Spain and by his son, the philosopher and statesman Seneca the Younger. The name also coincides with that of the Seneca, a Native American tribe historically centered around the Great Lakes, whose name means “place of stones.”
20062006: 52 births, rank #3,176
2007: 40 births, rank #3,918
2008: 40 births, rank #3,936
2009: 39 births, rank #3,944
2010: 31 births, rank #4,608
20112011: 31 births, rank #4,568
2012: 30 births, rank #4,707
2013: 29 births, rank #4,755
2014: 28 births, rank #4,892
2015: 33 births, rank #4,295
20162016: 33 births, rank #4,345
2017: 25 births, rank #5,191
2018: 34 births, rank #4,144
2019: 15 births, rank #7,342
2020: 34 births, rank #4,078
20212021: 37 births, rank #3,935
2022: 29 births, rank #4,671
2023: 26 births, rank #4,999
2024: 25 births, rank #5,148
20252025: 33 births, rank #4,265
Seneca rose from #833 to #724 for boys between 1979 and 1980. Its highest annual birth count came in 1977, with 179 births.