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Severin

#6,086 in 2025Boys' name

Serious, grave, through Severinus

Severin has been given to 914 babies in the U.S. since 1908. In 2025 it ranked #6,086 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Severin, 2025

1 in 221,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Severin: meaning, origin, and history

Serious, grave, through Severinus

Latin

What Severin means

Severin belongs to the name family reached through Severin → Severinus. Its meaning is “serious, grave”.

Origin, language, and formation

Severin is used in Danish and German. Its origins include Latin.

Severin comes through Latin Severinus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Severinus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Severin is pronounced /ˈzeːvəˌʁiːn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 914 boys were recorded with the name Severin between 1908 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2014; its best national rank was #1,560 in 1908.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,001 in 2020 to #6,086 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,056 in 2015 to #6,086 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.

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How common is Severin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,086
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Severin 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Severin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Severins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Severin was born before 2001 — so the typical Severin is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
22.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
723
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Choose a decade

2010s — 22.5% of all recorded uses (206).

Is Severin 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
+50
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,085
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,030
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.58×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.6%
Peak was 2014 (28)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,560
1908

Spellings of Severin

Severin is not the most common spelling — Seven is, with 28.5% against Severin's 7.6%.

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 Severin is used

Across 1910–2025, Severin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 644,814 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Minnesota1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Severin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Severin around the world

Where Severin 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
    2018–2019
    #3,937
    in 2019
  • France
    1900–2024
    #4,483
    in 2024
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #192
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Severin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,086
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,085
Best rank ever
#1,560
1908
Peak year
2014
28 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
914
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Severin

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

SevrinSeveroSeverianoSeverusSevastianTorrinSevinKamrinSevynSevanAldrinPerrinJerrinDerinAarinSevenCorinMarinJarinSevonThorinCamerinSeverinoKamerin

Sibling names for Severin

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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