Season
Feminine · “A time for sowing”
The word season has nothing to do with the weather. It comes from the Latin for sowing: a season was the time for putting seed in the ground, and the sense widened outwards from that one agricultural moment until it covered a quarter of the year, a fashion cycle and a run of television episodes.
How old is the name Season?
Season first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Season alive today was born around 1981, making them about 44 years old. About 1,100 people named Season are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Season most popular?
Season peaked in 1979, reaching #1193 nationally. See the whole 1979 chart.
Where it comes from
From satio to Season
The story of Season
The cooking sense is the same word taking a different turn. To season food is to bring it to its proper state, in the way that a season is the proper time for something, and the metaphor ran through ripening: seasoned timber is wood that has been allowed to reach its condition, and a seasoned soldier is a person who has. Salt and spices come into it only because they are what you use to bring food to that state. So a single Latin word about scattering seed has produced the four quarters of the year, the salt cellar, a description of an experienced person and the way television is sold, and none of those senses is obviously connected to any of the others.
Meaning
A time for sowing
Latin satio, a sowing, from serere, to sow. Old French made it seson and English took it in the thirteenth century, already broadened to mean a suitable time for anything. The name is the English word used directly, which puts it in the class of word-names rather than of inherited ones.
How the name formed
- satio
- seson
- Season
Pronouncing Season
SEE-zun
Two syllables with the stress at the front, said exactly as the word. The s between vowels is voiced as a z, which English does automatically and which is why the spelling looks unlike the sound.
Nicknames for Season
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1973
- Most girls named
- 1979110 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1193reached in 1979
- Change vs 2017
- −37.5%5 in 2019, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Seasons among us
people named Season are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Season sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The word is universally known, so nobody ever needs the name repeated.
- The meaning is pleasant and the real etymology is a genuine surprise.
- It is spelled exactly as the word and cannot be got wrong.
- It is an ordinary English noun and will be read as one before it is read as a name.
- Word-names of this kind are firmly dated to the nineteen-seventies in American ears.
- The cooking sense will produce remarks, and the child will hear them.
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Frequently asked
- How many Seasons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Season are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Season in 2025?
- Season is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Season with classmates?
- Season will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with S, all years combined.
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