Sever

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Sever has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1915, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Sever, 1915

1 in 366,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sever: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sever means

Sever is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Sever is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Sever between 1915 and 1915. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1915; its best national rank was #4,307 in 1915.

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.

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How common is Sever?

Sever had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1915, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1915: 1 in 366,000; 5 of 1,832,372 births
Among boys only: 1 in 170,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1915: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 254,022 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sever 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 1915 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 254,022 children born in 1915 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sever. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Severs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sever was born before 1915 — so the typical Sever is around 110 today.

Median birth year: 1915; About 110 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Sever 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: —; Not ranked then
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: 0%; Peak was 1915 (5)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,307; 1915

Spellings of Sever

Sever is not the most common spelling — Steven is, with 57.3% against Sever's <0.01%.

Steven57.3%1,293,124
Peter26.1%589,588
Steve10.7%241,224
River1.8%39,676
Denver0.85%19,178
Deven0.47%10,670
Keven0.39%8,752
Trever0.28%6,311

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.

Sever around the world

Where Sever 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.

France
1910–1911
#819
in 1911

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Sever 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: #4,307; 1915
Peak year: 1915; 5 that year
First recorded: 1915
Last recorded: 1915
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Sever

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

Sevro Kover Sevyen Seveon Sevinn Seviin Seveyn Sev Sevian Sevenn Kever Laver Kyver Severio Severen Hover Sevion Sevy Seva Harver Stover Uver Xiaver Dilver

Sibling names for Sever

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

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Artie Alpha

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman

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