Sevda
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sevda is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. In Azerbaijan it is the 17th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: infatuation, strong love.
- AZAzerbaijan1 in 327◐
- TRTürkiye1 in 1.2K
- GEGeorgia1 in 3.3K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.8K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 115 ●
- 1 in 3.3K ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
508K records
Official registry-verified
Georgia
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Севда in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UA Ukraine and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
infatuation, strong love
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #208 | 459,870 | 480K rec. | — | #96 | Sevda | 86 |
| RU Russia | #912 | 21,327 | 10K rec. | — | #800 | Севда | 115 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #17 | 13,509 | 4.7K rec. | — | 459 | Sevda | 42 |
| BG Bulgaria | #374 | 3,375 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Sevda | 48 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | 2,824 | 258 rec. | — | — | Sevda | 10 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 1,664 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Севда | 15 |
| GE Georgia | #457 | 1,224 | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 3.3K | 1.2K | Sevda | 18 |
| BE Belgium | — | 801 | 815 rec. | — | 5 | Sevda | 17 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | 754 | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 25K | 754 | Севда | 31 |
| CY Cyprus | #429 | 639 | 767 rec. | — | — | Sevda | 9 |
| MK North Macedonia | #659 | 541△ | 17 rec. | 1 in 3.9K | 541 | Севда | 5 |
| SY Syria | — | 508 | 563 rec. | — | — | Sevda | 5 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish462K90%
- German11K2%
- Azerbaijani8K2%
- French5.9K1%
- English3.2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 462,372 | 90% |
| German | 10,631 | 2% |
| Azerbaijani | 7,988 | 2% |
| French | 5,936 | 1% |
| English | 3,187 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Sevda 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 Turkish, 1. Aşk, sevgi. 2. İstek, heves, arzu. 3. Aşırı sevgiden doğan bir tür hastalık.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Amor, pasión
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In lzz, Latin spelling of სევდა (sevda)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, passion
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, love
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 79 |
| 2000 | 82 |
| 2001 | 86 |
| 2002 | 88 |
| 2003 | 89 |
| 2004 | 91 |
| 2005 | 100 |
| 2006 | 112 |
| 2007 | 118 |
| 2008 | 128 |
| 2009 | 133 |
| 2010 | 136 |
| 2011 | 139 |
| 2012 | 141 |
| 2013 | 144 |
| 2014 | 147 |
| 2015 | 152 |
| 2016 | 156 |
| 2017 | 157 |
| 2018 | 162 |
| 2019 | 166 |
| 2020 | 168 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Sevda Şenerb. 1928TRTurkish writer (1928–2014)
- Sevda Aydanb. 1930TRTurkish opera singer (1930–2018)
- Sevda Ibrahimovab. 1939AZAzerbaijani composer
- Sevda Ferdağb. 1942TRTurkish actor (1942–2024)
- Sevda Aktolgab. 1957TRTurkish actor (born 1957)
- Sevda Dalgıçb. 1984TRTurkish actor (born 1984)
- Sevdalizab. 1987NLnot in their usual nameIranian-born Dutch singer-songwriter, record producer, visual artist and director
- Sevda Ergincib. 1993TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1993)
- Sevda Altunolukb. 1994TRTurkish goalball player (born 1994)
- Sevda Valiyevab. 1997AZAzerbaijani Paralympic judoka
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 46 sources across 28 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 180 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sevda?
- We estimate roughly 3.8 thousand people bear Sevda (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sevda have the most bearers?
- Sevda is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled sevda.
- How common is Sevda compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Sevda is the 208th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Sevda a male or female name?
- Sevda is a female 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.
- What does the name Sevda mean?
- Recorded meaning: infatuation, strong love
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Sevda” — the 208th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.