Given name & surname
Sevda
“a parent's great love”
Sevda is used as a given name and a surname. One Turkish interpretation is “a parent's great love.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Turkish interpretation is “a parent's great love.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Turkish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2009. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sevda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 42
- 0 boys · 42 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,886 for girls
- 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 girls, ranking No. 16,886 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 363 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.
Sevda’s family of names
Sevda has a related form in Sevdah. In Macedonian usage, Sevda is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Севда. In Greek usage, Sevda as a surname is a transliteration of Σεβδά.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Sevda
- SevdalizaIranian-born Dutch singer-songwriter, record producer, visual artist and directorborn 1987
- Sevda AltunolukTurkish goalball player (born 1994)
- Sevda ErginciTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1993)
- Sevda ValiyevaAzerbaijani Paralympic judokaborn 1997
- Sevda DalgıçTurkish actor (born 1984)
- Sevda Karaca DemirTurkish journalist and statesperson (born 1984)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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