Seve
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: third-person singular optative of sevmek
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Seve is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 52K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 186K
- BEBelgium1 in 404K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Possibly a variant form; meaning unclear
Sources 1
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Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Seve is read(measured from records)
Seve is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French55%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Seve in French.
- Turkish20%
third-person singular optative of sevmek
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English12%
Possibly a variant form; meaning unclear
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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Seve 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 165 | Seve | 183 |
| BR Brazil | 120 | 1 in 1.8M | 120 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | 277 | Seve | 22 |
| CA Canada | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 440K | — | Seve | 25 |
| ES Spain | 64 | 1 in 781K | 64 | Seve | 9 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 35 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 29 | 1 in 404K | 29 | Seve | 8 |
| SE Sweden | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 714K | 80 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Seve is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Pet form of sEvERIANO and SEVERINO. Severiano § From Latin Sevérianus, a derivative of Sevérus. See SEVERO.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Spanish: pet form of SEVERIANO and SEVERINO .
as a word
In Spanish, a diminutive of the male given names Serverino or Serveriano
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, sap (of a plant)
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)
- Dorian Seveb. 1986FRFrench rugby union player
- Marion Seveb. 1995AUAustralian rugby league football player
- Jaleel Seve-Derbasb. 1996Australian rugby league footballer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 269 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 243 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 228 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 218 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 214 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 199 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 167 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 165 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 162 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 156 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 120 | #55,146 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 107 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Seve come from?
- Possibly a variant form; meaning unclear Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Seve?
- A machine transcription gives /zv/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Seve mean?
- In Turkish, third-person singular optative of sevmek
- What are other forms of the name Seve?
- In the etymology graph, Severin is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Seve have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Seve in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled seve.
- How common is the name Seve?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 120 people named Seve, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Seve?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/seveThe 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, “Seve”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.