Sevan
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: large freshwater mountain lake in Armenia
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səvɑ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sevan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 80K(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 70K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 76K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sevan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 160 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)
≈850 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
"Severek hatırla" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
How Sevan is read(measured from records)
Sevan is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French31%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sevan in French.
- English28%
large freshwater mountain lake in Armenia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sevan in Hindi.
- Turkish11%
"Severek hatırla" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sevan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 80K | 1.7K | Sevan | 160 |
| US United States | 739 | 1 in 450K | 520 | Sevan | 11 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 592K | — | Sevan | 2 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 70K | 1 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Sevan | 4 |
| GE Georgia | 37as სევან | 1 in 108K | 37 | Sevan | 3 |
| IS Iceland | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 111K | listed | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; the is-skra-nofn 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sevan Arabianb. 1938FRFrench painter
- Sevan Rossb. 1951USAmerican Buddhist priest
- Sevan Nişanyanb. 1956TRTurkish lexicographer and writer of Armenian ancestry (born 1956)
- Sevan Boyacıyanb. 1966TRTurkish-German musician (born 1966)
- Sevan Bıçakçıb. 1972TRTurkish jeweler (born 1972)
- Sevan Kirderb. 1980CHSwiss musician
- Sevan Gharibianb. 2000AMArmenian-Lebanese composer
- Sevan O’LeanRoman Catholic bishop
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.7K | #1,708 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 520 | #15,541 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 219 | #15,541 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 7 | — |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 1 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2025 | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Sevan?
- A machine transcription gives /səvɑ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Sevan mean?
- In English, large freshwater mountain lake in Armenia
- Is Sevan a male or female name?
- Sevan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sevan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 847 people named Sevan in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sevan.
- How common is the name Sevan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 739 people named Sevan in 2020, about 1 in 450 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sevan?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sevanThe 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, “Sevan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.