Seven vs Severo
American parents have registered 4,633 Sevens since 1880, against 1,400 Severos. Seven is still ahead, with 251 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Seven Severo
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 112 years in which either name was published, Severo for 80 years and Seven for 32 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Seven | Severo | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 4,633 | 1,400 |
| Most in one year | 421 | 24 |
| Babies in 2025 | 251 | 6 |
| Estimated living today | 4,600 | 840 |
| Median age today | 6 | 46 |
| Peak year | 2022 | 1924 |
| Best rank | 754th boys | 1,577th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,118th | 10,695th |
| First recorded | 1968 | 1904 |
| Girls / boys | 1,199 / 3,434 | 0 / 1,400 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Severos alive today are over 46; half the Sevens are over 6. That is 40 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Seven Georgia (3.6×), Florida (3.2×), Maryland (2.3×)
- Severo Texas (11.7×), New Mexico (6.9×), California (0.6×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Seven and Severo.