Sevim

given name · Turkish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sevim is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 46th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Kurdish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: 1. Sevgi. 2. Bir kimsede bulunan ve o kimseyi başkalarına sevdiren özellik.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 514◐
  • CYCyprus1 in 1.3K
  • BEBelgium1 in 12K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈161K ●

across 11 countries

Sources
80 ●

1.5M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 514 ◐

Türkiye

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Turkish

1. Sevgi. 2. Bir kimsede bulunan ve o kimseyi başkalarına sevdiren özellik.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Sevim is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#46159,5701.5M rec.1 in 514160KSevim80
CY Cyprus#1251,8192.3K rec.——Sevim14
BE Belgium—1,3361.4K rec.—65Sevim14
CH Switzerland—431471 rec.—121Sevim15
GB United Kingdom—352248 rec.——Sevim35
NL Netherlands—2591.6K rec.1 in 67K259Sevim19
SE Sweden—244139 rec.1 in 42K244Sevim16
SY Syria—243290 rec.——Sevim5
US United States—189527 rec.1 in 1.8M189Sevim80
DK Denmark—167—1 in 35K167——
SA Saudi Arabia—7667 rec.——Sevim5
NO Norway—6871 rec.—202Sevim5

Roughly 160K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 514). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Turkish1.1M84%
  • Kurdish170K13%
  • German16K1%
  • French4.1K1%
  • English3.3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish1,100,59584%
Kurdish170,45213%
German16,1621%
French4,1401%
English3,3241%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Sevim is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name26K records spelled Sevim6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, Austria, Netherlands

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Sêvîm

  • French given name5.4K records spelled Sevim3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Belgium, Netherlands

    Also written Sévim

  • Bulgarian given name2.7K records spelled Sevim9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Türkiye, United States

    Languages: Bulgarian, Macedonian, Croatian

    Also written Севим, Sévim

  • Spanish given name2.0K records spelled Sevim5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sèvim, Sévim

  • Russian given name734 records spelled Sevim9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Севим, Севім, Sevîm, Sevím

  • a separate given name565 records spelled Sevim2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States

    Also written Sevím

  • Greek given name348 records spelled Sevim3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, Türkiye

    Also written Σεβημ, Σεβιμ

35 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●

Sevim is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, to -self; dative singular of sevi, used optionally with prepositions that require the dative case

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

  • In Latvian, atsevišķi, atdalīti no citiem

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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●

05010015020020002005201020152020200 · 2019

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Sevim in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
1999150
2000154
2001158
2002159
2003163
2004168
2005172
2006170
2007177
2008180
2009180
2010181
2011182
2012183
2013185
2014186
2015189
2016190
2017192
2018197
2019200
2020200

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●

1920194019601980Sevim Tekeli, b. 1924Sevim Belli, b. 1925Semahat Arsel, b. 1928Sevim Burak, b. 1931Sevim Tanürek, b. 1934Meriç Başaran, b. 1945Sevim Arbana, b. 1951Sevim Çelebi-Gottschlich, b. 1953Sevim Ak, b. 1955Sevim Dağdelen, b. 1975

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 43 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Sevim
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — most used given names2025160K#24
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—259#3,058
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—244#4,553
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—202#4,768
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020200—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—193#5,572
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020189#38,650
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2007185#2,979
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—167#1,121
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—144#2,378
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024121#9,521
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007116#16,852

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 · 210 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sevim?
We estimate roughly 161 thousand people bear Sevim (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Sevim have the most bearers?
We estimate about 160 thousand people bear Sevim in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sevim.
Where is Sevim most common?
Sevim is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 514 people carrying it.
How common is Sevim compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Sevim is the 46th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
Is Sevim a male or female name?
Sevim 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 Sevim mean?
Recorded meaning: 1. Sevgi. 2. Bir kimsede bulunan ve o kimseyi başkalarına sevdiren özellik.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Sevim” — the 46th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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