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Severina

Girls' name

Feminine form of Severinus

Severina has been given to 104 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1921, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Severina, 2022

1 in 677,000

Severina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Severina: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Severinus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Severina means

Severina is a feminine form of Severinus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Severina is used in Italian, Portuguese and Ancient Roman.

Another recorded pronunciation is /se.ve.ˈri.na/ for Severina.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Severina → Severinus. The family’s meaning is “serious, grave”, recorded in Latin with the source elements sevērus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Severinus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 104 girls were recorded with the name Severina between 1912 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1921; its best national rank was #2,919 in 1912.

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 Severina?

Severina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Severina 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Severina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Severinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Severina was born before 1923 — so the typical Severina is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
31.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
29
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1910s — 31.7% of all recorded uses (33).

Is Severina 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 1921 (9)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,919
1912

Spellings of Severina

Severina is not the most common spelling — Evelina is, with 41.8% against Severina's 0.68%.

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.

Severina around the world

Where Severina 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
    1923–1996
    #3,934
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1952–1981
    #616
    in 1981

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Severina 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
#2,919
1912
Peak year
1921
9 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
104
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Severina

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

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Sibling names for Severina

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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