Sevda
The name carries the sense of "love, passion" and travels with Turkish speakers. Only about 150 women in Poland use it, and records show no newborn girls given it since 2000: meeting one would stick in your memory.
Sevda Pronunciation
What Sevda means
Where Sevda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sevda names one feeling: love, passion. That is its whole meaning, plain and undivided.
In the South Slavic Balkans the word grew into sevdalinka, the Bosnian song form built for longing. Singers still perform sevdalinka in Sarajevo, so the root stays audible. In Turkish the word also means love, and a deep, aching passion close to melancholy. The grounding counts the origin as Slavic, while the cultural warmth reads as Turkish. One short word holds both.
A Sevda on a Polish class register would sit easily. Two syllables, a clear stress. Nothing to spell twice. No diminutive travels with it, and no cross-gender pair, so the name stands on its own.
What stays with a bearer is direct. The name still says what it said in the Balkans: love, passion.
How many people are named Sevda
1 in 146389 women in Poland is named Sevda. 154 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2611 among female names.
Sevda as a middle name
Sevda is a first name for 154 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 99/1 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6720th, between Sevcan (2) and Sevde (2).
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#6718 Serwina2
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#6719 Sevcan2
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#6720 Sevda2
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#6721 Sevde2
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#6722 Sevil2