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Severin vs Sevon

American parents have registered 914 Severins since 1880, against 229 Sevons. Severin is still ahead, with 15 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Severin against Sevon, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Severin Sevon

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 79 years in which either name was published, Severin for 74 years and Sevon for 5 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Severin Sevon
Total US births 914229
Most in one year 2824
Babies in 2025 158
Estimated living today 710230
Median age today 1922
Peak year 20141993
Best rank 3,693rd boys2,865th boys
Rank in 2025 5,861st8,910th
First recorded 19081993
Girls / boys 0 / 9146 / 223

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 Sevons alive today are over 22; half the Severins are over 19. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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