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Severus

#8,792 in 2025Boys' name

Stern

Severus has been given to 176 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #8,792 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Severus, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Severus: meaning, origin, and history

Stern

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Severus means

Severus means “stern”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 176 boys were recorded with the name Severus between 2011 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2016; its best national rank was #3,423 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,411 in 2020 to #8,792 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,438 in 2015 to #8,792 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.

How common is Severus?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,792
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Severus 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Severus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Severuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Severus was born before 2018 — so the typical Severus is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
61.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
176
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 61.9% of all recorded uses (109).

Is Severus 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
−1,122
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,381
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,646
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
27.3%
Peak was 2016 (33)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
50.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,423
2016

Spellings of Severus

Severus is not the most common spelling — Severo is, with 56.2% against Severus's 7.1%.

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 Severus is used

Across 1910–2025, Severus was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Severus has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Severus by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,792
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,381
Best rank ever
#3,423
2016
Peak year
2016
33 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
176
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Severus

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

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Sibling names for Severus

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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