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Sevastian vs Severiano

American parents have registered 803 Severianos since 1880, against 539 Sevastians. Severiano is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sevastian against Severiano, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sevastian Severiano

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 97 years in which either name was published, Severiano for 72 years and Sevastian for 25 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Sevastian Severiano
Total US births 539803
Most in one year 3517
Babies in 2025 89
Estimated living today 530580
Median age today 1735
Peak year 20081990
Best rank 3,221st boys3,467th boys
Rank in 2025 8,910th8,243rd
First recorded 19881918
Girls / boys 0 / 5390 / 803

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Severianos alive today are over 35; half the Sevastians are over 17. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sevastian and Severiano.