Sęvda
surname · Latin script
Sęvda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish سودا (sevda), from Arabic سَوْدَاء (sawdāʔ, “black bile, melancholy”). Associated in Turkish with sevgi (“love”), sevmek (“to love”), with which it is originally unrelated.
- DKDenmark1 in 42K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 48K
- NLNetherlands1 in 57K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 112 (measured from records)
- 1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
363 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sevda in US United States, AT Austria, NL Netherlands and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Ottoman Turkishسوداsevda(measured from records)
- Arabicسَوْدَاءsawdāʔ“black bile, melancholy”(measured from records)
From Ottoman Turkish سودا (sevda), from Arabic سَوْدَاء (sawdāʔ, “black bile, melancholy”). Associated in Turkish with sevgi (“love”), sevmek (“to love”), with which it is originally unrelated.
Cited for this meaning 3
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sęvda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 363 | 1 in 916K | 357 | Sevda | 112 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 301 | 1 in 57K | 301 | Sevda | 15 |
| SE Sweden | — | 213 | 1 in 48K | 213 | Sevda | 7 |
| PL Poland | — | 163 | 1 in 235K | 163 | Sevda | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 140 | 1 in 42K | 140 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 20 | 1 in 105K | 21 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | — | 14 | 1 in 134K | 14 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | #827 | — | — | 40 | Sevda | 24 |
363 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sęvda mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ottoman Turkish سودا (sevda), from Arabic سَوْدَاء (sawdāʔ, “black bile, melancholy”). Associated in Turkish with sevgi (“love”), sevmek (“to love”), with which it is originally unrelated. Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Sęvda have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 363 people named Sęvda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sevda.
- Where is Sęvda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sęvda is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 42 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sęvda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 363 people named Sęvda in 2020, about 1 in 916 thousand residents.
- How common is Sęvda compared with other names?
- In Austria, Sęvda is the 827th most common given name of 26,800 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C4%99vdaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sęvda” — the 827th most common given name in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.