Sev
given name · Latin script
Meaning: An Indian snack food consisting of small pieces of crunchy noodles made from chickpea flour paste
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register), 2002
Sev is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 326K(measured from records)
- INIndia≈1 in 940K
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.1Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 222K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)An Indian snack food consisting of small pieces of crunchy noodles made from chickpea flour paste.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Sev, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sev 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 936K | 10 | Sev | 17 |
| US United States | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | 5 | Sev | 62 |
| PH Philippines | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Sev | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | 53 | 1 in 326K | 53 | Sev | 9 |
| BE Belgium | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Sev | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | 41 | Sev | 16 |
| CA Canada | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Sev | 8 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Sev is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by siv
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, second-person singular imperative of sevmek
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, abbreviation of Schienenersatzverkehr
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, to -self; dative singular of sevi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, flash of lightning or light
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 41 | #57,456 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 40 | #998 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #117,875 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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
- Is Sev a male or female name?
- Sev is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Sev mean, and where does it come from?
- An Indian snack food consisting of small pieces of crunchy noodles made from chickpea flour paste. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Sev?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 53 people named Sev, about 1 in 326 thousand residents.
- In which country does Sev have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Sev in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sev.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sevThe 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, “Sev”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.