Saverio

Where Saverio comes from

Saverio hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1718
    Saverio Bettinelli born
    Italian Jesuit writer
  2. 1902
    Saverio Ragno born
    Italian fencer
  3. 1909
    First appearance
    #1,155 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1914
    Peak, #986
    32 babies named Saverio — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1934
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,932.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Saverio Ragno · Italian fencer, 1902–1969
  • Saverio Bettinelli · Italian Jesuit writer, 1718–1808
  • Saverio Costanzo · Italian film director, born 1975
  • Saverio Guerra · American actor, born 1964
  • Saverio Fabbri · Italian actor, born 1986

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.