Severo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From the Roman family name Sevérus ‘stern’, ‘severe’
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries
/sebeɾo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Severo is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 90th most common given name.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 8.9K
- MXMexico≈1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bolivia, 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)From the Roman family name Sevérus ‘stern’, ‘severe’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Severo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #977 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 82 | Severo | 84 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Severo | 29 |
| PE Peru | #965 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Severo | 43 |
| BO Bolivia | #90 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Severo | 22 |
| AR Argentina | #905 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1.2K | Severo | 47 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,762 | 1 in 120K | 2.5K | Severo | 144 |
| EC Ecuador | #794 | 1,046 | 1 in 16K | 1K | Severo | 16 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INEC — civil registry names. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Severo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, harsh, severe
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Italian, Dal lat. Severus, "severo, austero, rigido".
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, Significato evidente. Dei venti Santi di questo nome. in Italia sono principalmente venerati S. S. martire sotto Diocleziano (uno dei Quattro Santi coronati n ) ; 8 novembre; S. S., vescovo di Ravenna, m. 389; l o febbraio; e S. S., vescovo di Xapoli. V sec.; 30 aprile. C'ogn. Severi, Severini.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
In Italian, forma ital. de Severus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Austero
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)- Severo Boninib. 1582FRItalian composer and organist
- Severo Fernándezb. 1849BOPresident of Bolivia (1849–1925)
- Severo Fernándezb. 1898ARArgentinian actor (1898–1961)
- Severo Ochoab. 1905ESSpanish physician
- Severo Antonellib. 1907USItalian photographer (1907–1995)
- Severo Ornsteinb. 1930USAmerican computer scientist (born 1930)
- Severo Sarduyb. 1937CUCuban writer (1937-1993)
- Severo Hernándezb. 1940COColombian cyclist
- Severo Moto Nsáb. 1943GQEquatoguinean politician
- Severo Mezab. 1986MXMexican footballer
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)45 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 63K | #383 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.2K | — |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 50 | #2,687 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Severo?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /sebeɾo/; in Portuguese /sevɛɾu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Severo mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Roman family name Sevérus ‘stern’, ‘severe’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Severo?
- In the etymology graph, Severus is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Severo a male or female name?
- Severo is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Ecuador (INEC, 2024) and Spain (INE), among others.
- In which country does Severo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Severo in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled severo.
- How common is the name Severo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,762 people named Severo in 2022, about 1 in 120 thousand residents.
- How common is Severo compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Severo is the 977th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Severo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/severoThe 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, “Severo” — the 977th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.