Fun Facts About the Name Sedona
- More than 2 thousand babies named Sedona: U.S. records list 2,380 babies given the name Sedona from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Sedona Mean?
Sedona is a feminine given name used in the United States. No meaning is documented for it, either as a word or as an earlier name. It is often compared with the older names Sidonia and Sedonia: Sidonia comes from the Latin Sidonius, from Greek Sidōn, the Phoenician city of Sidon, and literally means "of Sidon" or "woman from Sidon." Sedona resembles those names but is not a recorded form of them, so the resemblance is only a suggestion, not a confirmed origin.
The name is chiefly a place name in American usage: it comes from Sedona, Arizona, which was named after a person rather than after a Spanish or Native American word for the landscape. Because that earlier personal name has no documented etymology, the meaning of Sedona remains uncertain.
Sedona Name History & Origins
The name came into wider use through Sedona Miller Schnebly (1877 - 1950), who was born in Missouri and moved with her husband, Theodore Carlton Schnebly, to the Oak Creek area of the Arizona Territory around 1901. When the family applied for a post office for their small settlement, the proposed names "Schnebly Station" and "Oak Creek Crossing" were turned down as too long, and T. C. Schnebly submitted his wife's given name instead. The post office was established under the name Sedona in 1902, and the community that grew up around it took the same name.
As a personal name, Sedona is a modern American use that follows the Arizona town. Most explanations of its use as a given name point to the town's later fame as a destination for its red rock scenery and for spiritual and New Age tourism. Before Sedona Schnebly, the name has no documented history as a given name, and the source of her own name is not known.
How Popular is the Name Sedona?
Sedona has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2025. Its best rank was #1,591 in 2025.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #1,591 | 132 | 0.0082% |
| 2024 | #1,720 | 118 | 0.0073% |
| 2023 | #1,745 | 118 | 0.0074% |
| 2022 | #1,641 | 129 | 0.0079% |
| 2021 | #2,041 | 95 | 0.0058% |
| 2020 | #2,047 | 91 | 0.0056% |
| 2019 | #2,103 | 90 | 0.0054% |
| 2018 | #2,736 | 63 | 0.0037% |
| 2017 | #2,629 | 67 | 0.0039% |
| 2016 | #2,693 | 65 | 0.0037% |
| 2015 | #2,581 | 70 | 0.0039% |
| 2014 | #3,220 | 51 | 0.0029% |
| 2013 | #3,838 | 40 | 0.0023% |
| 2012 | #3,088 | 55 | 0.0031% |
| 2011 | #3,261 | 51 | 0.0029% |
| 2010 | #2,896 | 60 | 0.0034% |
| 2009 | #2,668 | 69 | 0.0038% |
| 2008 | #2,202 | 91 | 0.0048% |
| 2007 | #2,479 | 76 | 0.0040% |
| 2006 | #2,457 | 76 | 0.0040% |
| 2005 | #2,853 | 58 | 0.0031% |
| 2004 | #2,257 | 78 | 0.0042% |
| 2003 | #2,490 | 66 | 0.0036% |
| 2002 | #2,196 | 76 | 0.0042% |
| 2001 | #2,509 | 62 | 0.0034% |
| 2000 | #2,273 | 69 | 0.0038% |
| 1999 | #2,465 | 59 | 0.0033% |
| 1998 | #2,454 | 57 | 0.0032% |
| 1997 | #2,548 | 51 | 0.0029% |
| 1996 | #2,706 | 46 | 0.0026% |
| 1995 | #3,009 | 39 | 0.0022% |
| 1994 | #3,088 | 38 | 0.0021% |
| 1993 | #4,783 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 1992 | #5,005 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 1991 | #7,868 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1990 | #11,139 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1988 | #9,056 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1987 | #9,595 | 7 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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