Seppe

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/sɛpə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Seppe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 34K(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 351K
  • DKDenmark1 in 2M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

505 people

Sources
37 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

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

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Seppe 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 Seppe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands5051 in 34K505Seppe4
DK Denmark31 in 2M3——
PL Poland31 in 13M3——
SE Sweden21 in 5.1M2——
IS Iceland11 in 351K1——

505 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Seppe is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, United Kingdom

    Also written Sèppè

  • Turkish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Belgium

    Also written Şeppe

36 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Seppe is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, third-person singular past historic of sapere

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Estonian, partitive plural of sepp

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In vot, smith

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

1960198020002020Seppe van Groeningen, b. 1972Seppe Van Holsbeke, b. 1988Seppe van den Berghe, b. 1988Seppe Baetens, b. 1989Seppe Gebruers, b. 1990Seppe Smits, b. 1991Seppe Brulmans, b. 1994Seppe De Meulder, b. 1995Red Sebastian, b. 1999Seppe Van Den Boer, b. 2005

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)

InformalHallo Seppe,Hi Seppe, (English)

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 16 sources across 11 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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

How do you pronounce Seppe?
A machine transcription gives /sɛpə/ (IPA) for Dutch.
Is Seppe a male or female name?
Seppe is a male 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 Seppe?
In the etymology graph, Sebastian, Sébastien and Bastien are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Seppe have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 505 people named Seppe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled seppe.
Where is Seppe most common?
Seppe is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 34 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Seppe?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 505 people named Seppe, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/seppe

The 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, “Seppe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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