Seve
Seve is a name with a single cultural origin: Spanish.
- Spanish
Meaning & Origin of Seve
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Seve is a name with a single cultural origin: Spanish.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Spanish
The Story of Seve
American parents first put Seve on the record books as a baby boy name in 1983, with 6 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1988, when 16 Seves were born — ranking #3,203 that year. About 29% of every Seve on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Seve last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 9 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 221 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
Variants & Related Forms of Seve
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Seve. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Seve
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About the name Seve
Seve is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1983 and has accumulated 221 births in the dataset. Seve's peak popularity came in 1988 when it ranked #3,203. Use the chart and map above to compare Seve's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.