Given name
Sevan
Sevan is a masculine given name from Armenian. It is used in Turkish.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sevan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 397
- 348 boys · 49 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 28 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #8,138 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +9%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,138 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 3.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 2019. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 739 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.
Sevan’s family of names
Sevan may belong to the same name family as SEVANN. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Sevan
- Sevan NişanyanTurkish lexicographer and writer of Armenian ancestry (born 1956)
- Sevan BıçakçıTurkish jeweler (born 1972)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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