Sëph

surname · Latin script

Sëph is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 146K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 2.7M
  • FRFrance≈1 in 27M

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.

United States (measured from records)

124 people, 2020

Sources
18 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 146K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Seph in US United States, FR France, CD Congo - Kinshasa and 1 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sëph 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.

Where Sëph is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1241 in 2.7M115Seph8
NL Netherlands1181 in 146K118——
FR France≈3 est.≈1 in 27M—Seph18
CD Congo - Kinshasa———Seph2
TZ Tanzania———Seph3

124 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sëph is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Tanzania

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Seph, Śëph, Séph

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Sëph under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Sëph have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 124 people named Sëph, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled seph.
Where is Sëph most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sëph is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 146 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sëph?
In the United States, the national register counted 124 people named Sëph in 2020, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.

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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, “Sëph”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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