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Sepp

Boys' name

Short form of Joseph

Sepp has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2012. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2012, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Sepp, 2012

1 in 732,000

Sepp over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sepp: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Joseph

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sepp means

Sepp is a short form of Joseph.

Origin, language, and formation

Sepp is used in Bavarian and German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joseph and Josef.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Bavarian, Sepp is pronounced /ˈsɛp/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Sepp between 2012 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2012; its best national rank was #13,870 in 2012.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sepp?

Sepp had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among boys only
1 in 379,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sepp sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sepp. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sepps were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sepp was born before 2012 — so the typical Sepp is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Sepp rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2012 (5)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,870
2012

Spellings of Sepp

Sepp is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 71.1% against Sepp's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Sepp around the world

Where Sepp ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1993–1993
    #519
    in 1993

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sepp by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,870
2012
Peak year
2012
5 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sepp

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sepp

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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