Sever

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Turkish: third-person singular indicative aorist of sevmek

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/s̪eveɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sever is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SISlovenia1 in 1.3K
  • HRCroatia1 in 1.8K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈31,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
85 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SeverLatin(measured from records)
ΣεβερGreek(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)

perhaps sometimes a variant of Sivyer , from Middle English siv(i)er ‘sieve-maker’. Compare, in structure, Sawer as a variant of Sawyer .

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

How Sever is read(measured from records)

Sever is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.

  • Turkish69%

    third-person singular indicative aorist of sevmek

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Sevgi duyar, seven.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

    Sevgi duyan, seven.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary, per-gender-row harvest)

  • English15%

    perhaps sometimes a variant of Sivyer , from Middle English siv(i)er ‘sieve-maker’. Compare, in structure, Sawer as a variant of Sawyer .

    as a nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

  • Croatian6.8%

    north

    as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

Sever 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.

Where Sever is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#313≈31,000 est.≈1 in 2.7K—Sever85
CN China—≈6,700 est.≈1 in 208K—Sever5
HR Croatia—2,4051 in 1.8K2.4K——
US United States—2,0551 in 162K2.1KSever65
SI Slovenia—1,6711 in 1.3K1.7KSever4
MK North Macedonia#912≈370 est.≈1 in 5.8K—Sever2
CY Cyprus—≈69 est.≈1 in 18K—Sever11

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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sever is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Šever, Şever, Sëvër, Sevêr, Sevér

  • Russian surname29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Север, Šever, Sievier, Шевер, Şever

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Türkiye, Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Séver, Sevér, Sevèr, Śévéŕ

  • Hungarian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Türkiye

    Also written Šever

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sever is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Variante de Sévère.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Albert Sever, b. 1867Sava Sever, b. 1905Stane Sever, b. 1914Alexandru Sever, b. 1921Savin Sever, b. 1927John Sever, b. 1943Seray Sever, b. 1973Elena Sever, b. 1973Zeynep Sever, b. 1989

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)

FormalSayın Sever Hanım,Dear Sever Hanım, (English)
InformalMerhaba Sever,Hi Sever, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 53 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Sever
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20212.4K#136
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)20212.2K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.1K#14,511
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002K#13,931
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.8K#15,648
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—1.7K#54
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)

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

Where does the name Sever come from?
perhaps sometimes a variant of Sivyer , from Middle English siv(i)er ‘sieve-maker’. Compare, in structure, Sawer as a variant of Sawyer . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
What does the name Sever mean?
In Turkish, third-person singular indicative aorist of sevmek
How do you pronounce Sever?
A machine transcription gives /s̪eveɾ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
In which country does Sever have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Sever in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sever.
Where is Sever most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sever is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sever?
In Croatia, the national register counted 2,405 people named Sever in 2021, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
How common is Sever compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Sever is the 313th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Sever” — the 313th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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