Sevilla

Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Sevilla has been given to 260 babies in the U.S. since 1892. 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 1915, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Sevilla, 2024

1 in 557,000

Sevilla over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sevilla: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sevilla means

Sevilla is a given name.

The naming story behind Sevilla

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Sevilla in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 178.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Span. Lat. wise old woman”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Sevilla, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 260 girls were recorded with the name Sevilla between 1892 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,467 in 1894.

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 Sevilla?

Sevilla had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 557,000; 6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 270,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 386,177 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sevilla 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sevilla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sevillas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sevilla was born before 1946 — so the typical Sevilla is around 79 today.

Median birth year: 1946; About 79 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 17.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 41.9%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 119; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 17.7% of all recorded uses (46).

Is Sevilla 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: 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 1915 (10)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 17.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,467; 1894

Spellings of Sevilla

Sevilla is not the most common spelling — Arvilla is, with 58.2% against Sevilla's 5.2%.

Arvilla58.2%2,931
Villa14.3%722
Tehilla11.9%600
Savilla10.4%522
Sevilla5.2%260

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 Sevilla is used

Across 1910–2025, Sevilla was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —

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

Sevilla 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: #1,467; 1894
Peak year: 1915; 10 that year
First recorded: 1892
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 260
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Sevilla

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

Sevynn Sevana Astella Ornella Labella Aryella Sevanna Aniella Aviella Marella Bryella Annella Savilla Cirilla Breella Cyrilla Azriella Adriella Talulla Mayella Samuella Isobella Isella Tehilla

Sibling names for Sevilla

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Artie Alpha

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman

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