Sera
Sera was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,081 among girls’ names; 1,616 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,590 Americans named Sera and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 17 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sera by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sera mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sera is “a female given name from Hebrew, of occasional usage.” Its etymology gives the senses “lady, princess” (שָׂרָה) and “Sarai” (שָׂרָי).
From Hebrew שָׂרָה (sará, “lady, princess”), which was originally converted from the given name שָׂרָי (saráy, “Sarai”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sera?
#6,081 among girls’ names, 2025
Sera fell from #4,394 in 2015 to #6,081 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 18.5 to 12.4 per million.
76 babies in 1997, the peak
Sera peaked in 1997, when 76 girls were given it, #1,922 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,081 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,150 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,882 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,426 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,962 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,957 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,588 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,436 | 14.1 |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,048 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,265 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,394 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,145 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,144 | 20.5 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,085 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,709 | 23.9 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,947 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,790 | 22.9 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,073 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,197 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,304 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,251 | 26.0 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,837 | 31.0 |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,733 | 31.7 |
| 2002 | 62 | #2,545 | 34.5 |
| 2001 | 66 | #2,402 | 36.7 |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,767 | 29.2 |
| 1999 | 72 | #2,123 | 40.6 |
| 1998 | 73 | #2,040 | 41.3 |
| 1997 | 76 | #1,922 | 43.7 |
| 1996 | 64 | #2,143 | 36.5 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,075 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,488 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,219 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 20 | #5,001 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,611 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,654 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,458 | 16.3 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,777 | 14.0 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,605 | 14.4 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,737 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,100 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,931 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,643 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,466 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,294 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,111 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,577 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,216 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,385 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,843 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,351 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,508 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,328 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,729 | 5.1 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,388 | 2.5 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,480 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sera a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sera has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sera: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sera, and how old are they?
1,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,616 Americans ever recorded as Sera. The median Sera alive today is 25 years old; half are between 17 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 1,990 people named Sera (1,968 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,508 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 105 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 368 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 832 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 273 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Sera born?
The states with the most babies named Sera are California, New York and Texas, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 184 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 45 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 39 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sera with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,702 babies since 1880, Sera is the most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 57 babies (35%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sera
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sera and names like it
- Compare Sera and SeirraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSera peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sera since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Sera: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Sera.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sera alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.