Given name
Sergei
“an attendant; a servant”
Sergei is a variant of Sergio. One Latin interpretation is “an attendant; a servant.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sergei is a variant of Sergio. One Latin interpretation is “an attendant; a servant.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Sergei is a variant of Sergio. An origin associated with Sergio is Latin.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1925. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sergei through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 376
- 376 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,577 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,577 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 1998. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,012 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sergei’s family of names
Sergei has an affectionate form in Seryozha. Sergei has a related form in Sergio. In English usage, Sergei has a related form in Sergey.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Sergei has relatives in 7 languages.
8 related names in 7 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 15
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Sergei
- Sergei EisensteinSoviet filmmaker (1898–1948)
- Sergei YeseninRussian poet (1895–1925)
- Sergei RachmaninoffRussian composer, pianist and conductor (1873–1943)
- Sergei ShoiguSecretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since 2024 and former Russian defense ministerborn 1955
- Sergei KorolevSoviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
- Sergei KirovSoviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary (1886–1934)
- Sergei BagapshAbkhazian politician (1949-2011)
- Sergei WitteRussian statesman and first Prime Minister of the Russian Empire (1849-1915)
- Sergei IgnashevichRussian footballerborn 1979
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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