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Sekani

Sekani: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“people on the rocks”
Origin
Native American
Say it
seh-KAH-nee · 3 syllables
Used for
Boys (83% of all uses)

Sekani is the English form of the name of a Northern Athabaskan Indigenous people in British Columbia. It is primarily an ethnonym rather than a traditional personal name.

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How popular is Sekani?

202457.0 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Sekani in 2024191

2024 rank#1,225 boys

Peak year2019

Total US babies since 18801,399

Sekani is rising: use over the last five years is 317.0× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Sekani

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Kenaiuncertain; from Alaskan place name · Native American
  • Denalithe high one · Native American

Sekani questions

What does the name Sekani mean?

Sekani means "people on the rocks". It comes from Native American. Sekani is the English form of the name of a Northern Athabaskan Indigenous people in British Columbia. It is primarily an ethnonym rather than a traditional personal name.

Is Sekani a boy or girl name?

Sekani is mainly a boy's name in US records (83% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Sekani?

191 US babies were named Sekani in 2024. Its peak year was 2019.

How do you pronounce Sekani?

Sekani is usually pronounced seh-KAH-nee.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.