Seth is a very old Hebrew name that can mean ‘anointed,’ ‘compensation,’ or ‘placed’. In the Bible, Seth was the third son of Adam and Eve — a replacement for Abel after his brother Cain killed him. Seth was an ancestor of Noah who built the ark.
Seth is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Seth isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Seth ranks 304. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 6 were named Seth. In the entire USA, approximately 159,849 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Seth. That is 0.05 % of all living Americans.
Seth is a very old Hebrew name that can mean ‘anointed,’ ‘compensation,’ or ‘placed’. In the Bible, Seth was the third son of Adam and Eve — a replacement for Abel after his brother Cain killed him. Seth was an ancestor of Noah who built the ark.
In Egyptian mythology,... Seth was the god of chaos and the desert, the slayer of Osiris. Osiris's son Horus eventually defeats Seth and has him banished to the desert. The Egyptian name is of unknown origin.
If we dig really deep into our statistics, we find that there are very few boys' names that have been consistently popular for so long that they have been given to newborns in every single year since the beginning of our records in 1880. In fact, there are only 442 boys' names that appear in our statistics in every single year, and Seth is one of those very special classics. At the same time, Seth has never been more popular than it is in this century - in 2000 the name even made it to rank #62 of the most popular boys' names, easily landing in the top 100 of our SmartGenius first name statistics.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Seth was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
...because: In 2022, 643 boys were born and given the name Seth by their parents. That puts Seth at #455 on our list of most popular boys' names. It was much less popular in 1930 - only 55 parents chose this name for their newborn son and it ranked 784 on the popularity scale of all boys' names.
The name Seth may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Seth is apparently especially popular in Alaska. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 410 men in Alaska is called Seth. In total, that’s 613 people who feel addressed when the name Seth is shouted loudly across Alaska and who ensure that their name makes it to #101 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Seth as the answer a total of 159,849 times. This places Seth at #202 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Seth as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With four letters, the name Seth is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.
If your name is Seth and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Seth, you can simply say:
Sun
Elephant
Tiger
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Seth
Seth
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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T
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Seth sounds like this:
