Severian
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Severian is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Armenian: name of Severian of Sebaste, a Catholic saint from North Africa.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 14Kas Северин(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 55Kas Северин
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Severian itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7M (inferred from the name graph)
4,675 named Seweryn, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Северин in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus and 1 more, Severin in US United States, FR France and Severyn in PL Poland.
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)
Armenian: name of Severian of Sebaste, a Catholic saint from North Africa.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Severian 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 4,675as Seweryn | 1 in 8.2K | 14K | Severyn | 7 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Северин | 40 |
| RU Russia | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 55K | #2,642 | Северин | 131 |
| US United States | 2,416as Severin | 1 in 138K | 2.4K | Severin | 34 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Северин | 1 |
| BY Belarus | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 1 | Северин | 20 |
| DK Denmark | 231as Severin | 1 in 25K | 324 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | 58as Severin | 1 in 1.3K | 58 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | 2.3K | Severin | 2 |
4,675 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling seweryn. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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)
Severian 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 Russian, "strong."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In English, A member of a tribe or tribal confederation of early East Slavs once occupying areas to the east of the middle Dnieper River and southeast of the Danube River.
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)
- Severian Buadzeb. 1894GEGeorgian doctor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Severian mean, and where does it come from?
- Armenian: name of Severian of Sebaste, a Catholic saint from North Africa. Recorded by African Names.
- Is Severian a male or female name?
- Severian 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.
- In which country does Severian have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Seweryn, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Severian?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,675 people named Seweryn in 2026, about 1 in 8.2 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/severianThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Severian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.