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Severa

Girls' name

Feminine form of Severus

Severa has been given to 477 babies in the U.S. since 1898. 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 1927, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Severa, 2017

1 in 715,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Severa: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Severus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Severa means

Severa is a feminine form of Severus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Severa is used in Ancient Roman.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Severa → Severus. The family’s meaning is “stern”, recorded in the naming reference for Severus.

Origin, language, and formation

Severa is used in Italian.

Severa comes through Latin Sevēra.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Severus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 477 girls were recorded with the name Severa between 1898 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1927; its best national rank was #1,362 in 1907.

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 Severa?

Severa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Severa 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 2017 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 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Severa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Severas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Severa was born before 1929 — so the typical Severa is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
27.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
87
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1920s — 27.0% of all recorded uses (129).

Is Severa 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 1927 (20)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,362
1907

Spellings of Severa

Severa is not the most common spelling — Vera is, with 50.2% against Severa's 0.16%.

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.

Where Severa is used

Across 1910–2025, Severa was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 62,025 across all states with data.

22 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Severa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Severa around the world

Where Severa 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
    1991–1991
    #669
    in 1991

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

Severa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,362
1907
Peak year
1927
20 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
477
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Severa

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

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Sibling names for Severa

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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