Sevin
Masculine · “seven”
Sevin is given to both — 522 boys and 122 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Sevin is a spelling of the English number seven, and it is also a real Turkish word — the imperative of the verb to be glad. Two languages, one spelling, no connection.
How old is the name Sevin?
Sevin first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Sevin is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Sevin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sevin most popular?
Sevin peaked in 2022, reaching #3344 nationally. Today it ranks #3513, 169 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From seofon to Sevin
The story of Sevin
Number names are a small but real American category — Seven, Eleven and Trinity all appear in the records — and Seven rose in the 2000s for boys and girls alike. Sevin is a respelling of it. Quite separately, Turkish naming uses imperative verb forms as names, which English does not, and Sevin is one of them: it means, simply, be glad. Both lines appear in American records.
Meaningscholars disagree
seven, or rejoice
The English reading takes the name from the number seven, from Old English seofon, which appears as a given name in American records alongside other number names. Turkish sevin is the imperative of sevinmek, to be glad, and is used as a women's name in Turkey.
How the name formed
- seofon
- seven
- Sevin
Related forms: Seven · Sevin
Pronouncing Sevin
SEV-in
Two syllables, first stressed. Identical in sound to the English number.
Nicknames for Sevin
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1990
- Most boys named
- 202235 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3344reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- +10.3%32 in 2025, from 29
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Sevin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Seven in English — spelling variant
- Sevin in Turkish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Texas, Georgia.
Sevins among us
people named Sevin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 53,377 born in 2025 was named Sevin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Sevin
- #3513
- Sevin on the 2025 chart
- #530
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Sevin went to 32 boys in 2025, but Sevyn, Sevynn and Cevyn are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 453, which makes it the 530th most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,983 places above the chart.
- Sevyn390
- Sevin32
- Sevynn16
- Cevyn15
About 1 boy in 3,771 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 53,377 for Sevin itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Hyun test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Sevin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Hyun climbed just as high around 1972, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Hyun's path sketches the road Sevin is walking now.
Sevin sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Sevin is headed
Sevin should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Sevin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Sevin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Five letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- Two documented readings, one English and one Turkish, both real.
- It is a number, and that will be remarked on constantly.
- Seven is the standard English spelling and will be written for him.
- In Turkey the same spelling is a women's name, which occasionally surprises.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sevins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Sevin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Sevin?
- Sevin is one of 4 recorded spellings. Sevyn is the more common one — 390 births in 2025 against 32 for Sevin.
- How popular is the name Sevin in 2025?
- Sevin ranks #3513 among US boy names in 2025, with 32 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Sevin?
- About 1 in every 53,377 US boys born in 2025 was named Sevin — 32 in all.
- Will my child share the name Sevin with classmates?
- Sevin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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