Sévigny
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Altération de Sévigné, nom d’une localité dans l’Ille-et-Vilaine (Bretagne)
Sévigny is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 115K
- USUnited States1 in 188K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 207 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sevigny in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Altération de Sévigné, nom d’une localité dans l’Ille-et-Vilaine (Bretagne).
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sévigny counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Sevigny | 1 |
| US United States | 1,766 | 1 in 188K | 1.8K | Sevigny | 207 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Sevigny | 114 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 115K | 5 | Sevigny | 18 |
| AU Australia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Sevigny | 9 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Sevigny | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Sevigny | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Albert Sévignyb. 1881CACanadian politician (1881–1961)
- Pierre Sévignyb. 1917CACanadian politician (1917-2004)
- Jeannine Sévignyb. 1927CAresearcher and professor at Université Laval
- Bernard Sévignyb. 1961CACanadian mayor
- Jean Sévignyb. 1966CAresearcher and professor at Université Laval
- Pierre Sévignyb. 1971USCanadian ice hockey player
- Gabriel Beauchesne-Sévignyb. 1984CACanadian canoeist
- Geneviève Beauchesne-Sévignyb. 1986CACanadian canoeist
- Serge SévignyCAuniversity professor
- Nathalie SévignyCACanadian primary school teacher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sévigny mean?
- Recorded meaning: Altération de Sévigné, nom d’une localité dans l’Ille-et-Vilaine (Bretagne).
- In which country does Sévigny have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10.0 thousand people named Sévigny in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sevigny.
- How common is the name Sévigny?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,766 people named Sévigny in 2010, about 1 in 188 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A9vignyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sévigny”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.