Given name & surname
Sergey
“an attendant; a servant”
Sergey is a variant of Sergio. One Latin interpretation is “an attendant; a servant.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sergey is a variant of Sergio. One Latin interpretation is “an attendant; a servant.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Sergey is a variant of Sergio. An origin associated with Sergio is Latin.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
A transliteration of Russian Серге́й, from Latin Sergius.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1991. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sergey through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 488
- 488 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 29 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #8,137 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −37%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,137 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 37.3% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 29 in 2000. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 9,907 as a first name in 2020; 104 as a surname in 2010.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sergey’s family of names
In English usage, Sergey shares an earlier linguistic root with Sergius. Sergey has a related form in Sergio. In English usage, Sergey has a conventional equivalent in the German form Sergei.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Sergey has relatives in 19 languages.
19 related names in 19 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 31
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Sergeequivalent
- Sergiequivalent
- Sergiosequivalent
- Сергейequivalent
- Srđanequivalent
- Sérgioequivalent
- Sergejsequivalent
- Serhiiequivalent
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- Sergiuszequivalent
- Сергійequivalent
- Siarhiejequivalent
- Shirgjequivalent
- Сяргейequivalent
- 세르게이Korean
- SergueïFrench
- SerhiyEnglish
- Serzhdoublet · English
- Sergiusdoublet · English
- SergejGerman, Swedish
- Срђанequivalent
- Sergiuequivalent
- Сергі́йUkrainian
- Серге́йRussian, Bulgarian
- سرگئیPersian
- سرگیPersian
- Серге́јMacedonian
- セルゲイJapanese
- SzergejHungarian
- Сярге́йBelarusian
- سَيْرْجَيArabic
- سَيْرْغَيArabic
People named Sergey
- Sergei EisensteinSoviet filmmaker (1898–1948)
- Sergei YeseninRussian poet (1895–1925)
- Sergey LavrovRussian politician of Armenian origin, Minister of Foreign Affairsborn 1950
- Sergey BrinAmerican billionaire businessman (born 1973)
- 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)
- Sergey KarjakinRussian chess playerborn 1990
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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