How rare is the name Sergey?

9,907 people in the United States have the first name Sergey, about 1 in 30,487. It ranks #2,483 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SERGEY

#2,483

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,907
About
1 in 30,487
This common or more
79.9%
Who bears it

Of the 9,907 people named Sergey, 97.6% reported their origin as White and 1% as two or more races. Virtually all are male (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Sergey peaked in 2000, when 29 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19912025
Peak year
2000
Births that year
29
In 2025*
10 ▼66%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 488 babies have been given the name since 1991. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Sergey by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #10,855. The largest share of babies named Sergey, 59.2%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1990s#11,375122
2000s#10,855181
2010s#13,842134
2020s#17,86451
Millennials 1981–9613.3%
Generation Z 1997–1259.2%
2013 and later27.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Either side of Sergey

#2,481 Wes · 9,923#2,482 Joslyn · 9,915#2,484 Darby · 9,906#2,485 Yang · 9,900

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Sergey, most common first.

#3,919 Serge · 4,986#5,615 Sergei · 3,012#11,527 Sergiy · 1,107#49,963 Sergeo · 122#50,139 Sergy · 121

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