Severo
#11,772 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Severo has been given to 1,400 babies in the U.S. since 1904. In 2025 it ranked #11,772 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 24 recorded.
Babies named Severo, 2025
1 in 553,000
Severo over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Severo?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,772
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Severo sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Severo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Severos were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Severo was born before 1959 — so the typical Severo is around 66 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 13.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 11.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 846
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 13.4% of all recorded uses (188).
Is Severo 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
- −1,353
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,159
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.67×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 25.0%
- Peak was 1924 (24)
- Years since peak
- 101
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.3% average annual change
Spellings of Severo
Severo is not the most common spelling — Ever is, with 23.0% against Severo's 7.2%.
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 Severo is used
Across 1910–2025, Severo was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 43,857 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in 20,000
- 2New Mexico1 in 33,333
- 3California1 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. Severo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Severo by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Severo
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Severo
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.