Severo
The boy's name Severo has been in the national records since 1904, with 1,400 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 10,695th. About 840 Severos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 46.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Severo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,400
- Estimated living today
- 840
- Median age today
- 46
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 1,577th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,695th
- First recorded
- 1904
How old the living Severos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,400 babies given the name since 1904, about 840 are alive — 60 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1979 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Severos
- Severo Ochoa (1905–1993)Spanish physician
- Severo Sarduy (1937–1993)Cuban writer
- Severo Meza (born 1986)Mexican footballer
- Severo Fernández (1849–1925)President of Bolivia
People named Severo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Severo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Severo is most concentrated in Texas (11.7×), New Mexico (6.9×), California (0.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular boys’ names the year Severo peaked:
Where Severo lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 640 men called Severo were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pontevedra | Severo | 92 | 0.201 | 384 |
| Ourense | Severo | 26 | 0.177 | 426 |
| Cáceres | Severo | 19 | 0.099 | 615 |
| Coruña, A | Severo | 46 | 0.084 | 674 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Severo | 45 | 0.084 | 1,031 |
| Lugo | Severo | 12 | 0.076 | 733 |
Listed in 33 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 19 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Severo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.