Seve

#9,568 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Severiano

Seve has been given to 229 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #9,568 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Seve, 2025

1 in 414,000

Seve over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Seve: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Severiano

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Seve means

Seve is a diminutive of Severiano.

Origin, language, and formation

Seve is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Severiano.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 229 boys were recorded with the name Seve between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1988; its best national rank was #3,319 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,417 in 2020 to #9,568 in 2025.

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 Seve?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 414,000; 8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 213,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #9,568; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 287,238 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Seve 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 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Seve. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Seves were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Seve was born before 2000 — so the typical Seve is around 25 today.

Median birth year: 2000; About 25 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 27.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 47.2%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 229; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 27.9% of all recorded uses (64).

Is Seve 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: −703; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +849; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 50.0%; Peak was 1988 (16)
Years since peak: 37; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 35.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,319; 1988

Spellings of Seve

Seve is not the most common spelling — Steven is, with 43.4% against Seve's <0.01%.

Steven43.4%1,293,124
Sean14.2%423,637
Steve8.1%241,224
Lee7.8%233,627
Levi7.2%215,013
Seth5.6%165,793
Gene4.3%126,877
Dave2.2%64,378

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.

Seve around the world

Where Seve 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
2007–2025
#4,275
in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Seve by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #9,568
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 849
Best rank ever: #3,319; 1988
Peak year: 1988; 16 that year
First recorded: 1983
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 229
Count in 2025: 8

Names similar to Seve

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

Sevon Sevn Sevan Sevin Sevag Severus Sevynn Sevion Sevyn Sevak Severo Severn Reeve Seven Sevi Severin Sevrin Sevenn Sev Seveyn Sevy Seva Severt Sevyen

Sibling names for Seve

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

For a sister

Anthony Kala Ashlie Kacy Ashely Kandace Janay Kristian

For a brother

Derrell Elizabeth Garrick Coty Kelsey Bradly Arron Whitney

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