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Sevda

#16,882 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Sevda has been given to 42 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #16,882 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Sevda, 2025

1 in 663,000

Sevda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sevda: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Arabic

What Sevda means

Sevda is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Sevda is used in Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 42 girls were recorded with the name Sevda between 2009 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2024; its best national rank was #11,987 in 2024.

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 Sevda?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,882
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sevda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sevda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sevdas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sevda was born before 2019 — so the typical Sevda is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
45.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
42
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 45.2% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Sevda 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
−4,895
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
62.5%
Peak was 2024 (8)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,987
2024

Spellings of Sevda

Sevda is not the most common spelling — Eva is, with 58.4% against Sevda'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.

Sevda around the world

Where Sevda 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.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • France
    1974–2024
    #4,867
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2002–2002
    #2,286
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Sevda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,882
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#11,987
2024
Peak year
2024
8 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
42
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Sevda

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

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Sibling names for Sevda

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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