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Seva

Gender
Boy
Origin
Slavic
US rank, 2025
#11,928 for girls

Seva is a boys' name of Slavic origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).

What does Seva mean?

Slavic

A transliteration of the Russian male given name diminutive Се́ва (Séva)

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Seva a girl's or a boy's name?

Seva is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Seva in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2018, with 7 boys.

2008Busiest: 7 in 20182024
Seva in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20243#5,198
20230–
20220–
20213#4,989
20204#4,025
20195#3,597
20187#2,823
20173#4,995
20160–
20150–
20140–
20130–
20120–
20110–
20100–
20090–
20083#4,615

How popular is Seva in the US?

Rank in 2025
11,928th among girls
Babies in 2025
7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Seva, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2024, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 1965.

Half of all the girls named Seva in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

1965Busiest: 11 in 20242025
Seva in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20257#11,928
202411#8,941
20237#12,192
20229#10,377
20217#12,201
20200–
20197#12,442
20189#10,540
20176#14,120
20160–
201510#10,143
20149#10,949
20136#14,577
20128#12,193
20115#16,756
20100–
20090–
20080–
20070–
20060–
20050–
20040–
20036#13,837
20020–
20010–
20000–
19990–
19980–
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19810–
19800–
19790–
19780–
19770–
19760–
19750–
19740–
19730–
19720–
19710–
19700–
19690–
19680–
19670–
19660–
19655#6,538

Names like Seva

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Seva: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/seva, updated 20 October 2026.