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[Facts] Sewarion / Sevarion.
I came across this name when watching a German crimeshow last week, which mentioned a (real-life) man named Sewarion Kirkitadse (born in 1955 in Germany; he was named after his grandfather). At first glance, it seemed to me that the name was made to look a bit Polish or Slavic, because of the 'w'- I think the 'original' must be Sevarion. It seems like a Greek name in origin to me, but it also reminds me of the name Severus, so I'm not sure whether it's actually a Latin name that has just been Hellenized (at least to some degree).Could anyone please shed some light on this? It might possibly be Georgian, according to a German baby names site - but I'm not sure how accurate that would be.Thank you in advance for any information that you can provide. :)

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There is a Georgian writer named Sevarion Nadiradze that I got hits for on google. Since the Georgian language uses it's own alphabet which is only used for that language the name is a transliteration into the Roman alphabet.The Polish form of this name by the way is Sewerian. It also has the forms Sewer and Seweryn. Seweryn has been the most common form used in Poland.
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I would think this is likely to be a Germanic or Slavic version of the same name which is Severiano in Italian and Spanish. Severiano has an entry on this site.
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