# Sergey (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sergey/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Sergei |
| US babies named this | 488 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 488 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 10, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Transliteration of Russian Серге́й (Sergéj), from Latin Sergius.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 17 | 5,393 |
| 2012 | 18 | 5,208 |
| 2013 | 10 | 8,002 |
| 2014 | 14 | 6,257 |
| 2015 | 14 | 6,257 |
| 2016 | 16 | 5,752 |
| 2017 | 12 | 7,030 |
| 2018 | 7 | 10,561 |
| 2019 | 10 | 8,114 |
| 2020 | 14 | 6,234 |
| 2021 | 9 | 8,722 |
| 2022 | 8 | 9,692 |
| 2023 | 5 | 13,848 |
| 2024 | 5 | 13,911 |
| 2025 | 10 | 8,137 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: سَيْرْغَي, سَيْرْجَي
- Armenian: Սերգեյ
- Bulgarian: Серге́й
- Chinese: 謝爾蓋 /谢尔盖
- Esperanto: Sergej
- French: Sergueï
- German: Sergej, Sergei
- Hungarian: Szergej
- Italian: Sergej
- Japanese: セルゲイ
- Portuguese: Serguei
- Russian: Серге́й
- Slovene: Sergej
- Swedish: Sergej
- Turkish: Sergey
- Ukrainian: Сергі́й

## People named Sergey

- Sergey Brin, American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
- Sergey Stanishev, Bulgarian politician
- Sergey Khachatryan, Armenian violinist
- Sergey Krivets, Belarusian soccer player
- Sergey Mergelyan, Armenian mathematician (1928–2008)
- Sergey Mihaylov, boxer
- Sergey Dotsenko, boxer
- Sergey Ulegin, canoe racer
- Sergey Afanasyev, engineer and minister of the Soviet Union (1918-2001)
- Sergey Verlin, Canoe racer
- Sergey Mindirgasov, fencer
- Sergey Shupletsov, freestyle skier (1970–1995)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.