The Severino surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,051 people carried this name — #8,189 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 73,000 people counted. That is up 21% from 3,337 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Severino surname
Borrowed from Italian, Portuguese and Spanish Severino.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Severino» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 1,209 people named Severino live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
193 people named Severino live in Switzerland.
They live in 13 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Basel-Landschaft.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 168 people named Severino live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Hainaut.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 61 people named Severino.
Most of them — 32 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 10 départements, most often Alpes-Maritimes.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
22 people named Severino is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Severino in American newspapers,
1925.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 2,793 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Severino,
with a public archive behind them.
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Marco Aurelio Severino 1580–1656 · physician -
Bartolomeu dos Mártires de Sousa Severino 1878–1953 · politician -
Maurice R. Severino 1919–2005 · military officer -
Mauro Severino 1936–2022 · screenwriter -
Giulio Severino 1550–1583 · composer
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Vincenzo Severino 1859–1926 · painter
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Severino.
- Setti 148 · U.S. census
- Seu 283 · U.S. census
- Seven 179 · U.S. census
- Severe 1,901 · U.S. census
- Severi 107 · U.S. census
- Severin 2,416 · U.S. census
- Sevilla 8,980 · U.S. census
- Sevillano 847 · U.S. census
- Seville 1,018 · U.S. census
- Sevin 916 · U.S. census
- Seye 249 · U.S. census
- Seyer 620 · U.S. census
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