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Severine

Girls' name

Serious, grave, through Severin

Severine has been given to 54 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 2016, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Severine, 2022

1 in 677,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Severine: meaning, origin, and history

Serious, grave, through Severin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Severine means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Severine is used in Danish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Severin and Severinus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 54 girls were recorded with the name Severine between 1914 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2016; its best national rank was #4,112 in 1914.

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 Severine?

Severine 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 Severine 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 Severine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Severines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Severine was born before 2013 — so the typical Severine is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
36
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Choose a decade

2010s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (21).

Is Severine 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2016 (9)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,112
1914

Spellings of Severine

Severine is not the most common spelling — Eveline is, with 84.3% against Severine's 1.4%.

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.

Severine around the world

Where Severine 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
    1998–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    1972–1972
    #471
    in 1972
  • France
    1900–2018
    #4,702
    in 2018
  • Canada
    1993–2013
    #3,199
    in 2013

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

Severine 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
—
Best rank ever
#4,112
1914
Peak year
2016
9 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
54
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Severine

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

JadelineMazarineSevaehApollineSevannahSeverinaAdilineMaclaineMaxxineSeveahSevinaAnyelineSevilleSeveyahSevayaSeveynJosalineSevdaGuerlineJerldineEstalineLearlineMadylineSevana

Sibling names for Severine

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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