Sevim
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Sevgi. 2. Bir kimsede bulunan ve o kimseyi başkalarına sevdiren özellik
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/s̪evim/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sevim is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 47th most common given name.
- TRTürkiye1 in 514(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.6K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 17K
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.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- 1 in 514 (inferred from the name graph)
159,570 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. Sevgi. 2. Bir kimsede bulunan ve o kimseyi başkalarına sevdiren özellik.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sevim 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.
159,570 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sevim is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, to -self; dative singular of sevi, used optionally with prepositions that require the dative case
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, atsevišķi, atdalīti no citiem
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sevim Tekelib. 1924TRTurkish history of science professor (1924–2019)
- Sevim Bellib. 1925TRTurkish translator and writer (1925–2025)
- Semahat Arselb. 1928TRnot in their usual nameTurkish businessperson (born 1928)
- Sevim Burakb. 1931TRTurkish writer (1931–1983)
- Sevim Tanürekb. 1934TRTurkish singer (1934–1998)
- Meriç Başaranb. 1945TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor (born 1945)
- Sevim Arbanab. 1951ALAlbanian human rights and peace activist (born 1951)
- Sevim Çelebi-Gottschlichb. 1953TRTurkish-German politician (born 1953)
- Sevim Akb. 1955TRTurkish writer (born 1955)
- Sevim Dağdelenb. 1975DETurkish-German statesperson (born 1975)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 45 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2025 | 160K | #24 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2007 | 185 | #2,979 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 144 | #2,378 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2022 | 40 | #1,861 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 26 | #2,378 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1981 | 8 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1958 | 8 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2019 | 6 | #1,198 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2015 | 2 | #1,656 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2023 | 1 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2022 | 1 | #3,497 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2015 | 1 | #3,175 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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
- How do you pronounce Sevim?
- A machine transcription gives /s̪evim/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Sevim mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Sevgi. 2. Bir kimsede bulunan ve o kimseyi başkalarına sevdiren özellik.
- Is Sevim a male or female name?
- Sevim is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Sevim?
- In the etymology graph, Sevgi and Sevil are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Sevim have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 160 thousand people named Sevim, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sevim.
- Where is Sevim most common?
- Sevim is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 514 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sevim?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 159,570 people named Sevim in 2025, about 1 in 514 residents.
- How common is Sevim compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Sevim is the 47th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sevimThe 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, “Sevim” — the 47th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.