Serafin
Serafin was given to 25 boys in 2025, #4,231 among boys’ names; 1,782 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,350 Americans named Serafin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 20 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Serafin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Serafin?
#4,231 among boys’ names, 2025
Serafin rose from #5,025 in 2015 to #4,231 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 9.9 to 14.6 per million.
33 babies in 1993, the peak
Serafin peaked in 1993, when 33 boys were given it, #2,333 among boys’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 76% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #4,231 | 14.6 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,612 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,454 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 15 | #6,093 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,979 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,414 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 19 | #5,118 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,518 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,277 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,747 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #5,025 | 9.9 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,252 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,134 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,959 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,924 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,342 | 12.0 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,256 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,632 | 14.7 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,394 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 32 | #3,369 | 15.6 |
| 2005 | 27 | #3,597 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 30 | #3,269 | 15.1 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,951 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,170 | 14.9 |
| 2001 | 27 | #3,303 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,885 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 23 | #3,460 | 12.0 |
| 1998 | 26 | #3,073 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,850 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 28 | #2,729 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 16 | #4,009 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,441 | 10.4 |
| 1993 | 33 | #2,333 | 16.8 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,725 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 24 | #2,808 | 11.9 |
| 1990 | 29 | #2,419 | 14.1 |
| 1989 | 24 | #2,672 | 12.0 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,867 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,172 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,492 | 11.9 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,581 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 25 | #2,150 | 13.9 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,657 | 10.0 |
| 1982 | 26 | #2,103 | 14.3 |
| 1981 | 28 | #1,982 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 23 | #2,275 | 12.9 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,657 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,463 | 11.6 |
| 1977 | 25 | #1,996 | 15.2 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,491 | 11.5 |
| 1975 | 18 | #2,435 | 11.5 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,776 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,196 | 12.2 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,960 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 13 | #2,789 | 7.4 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,861 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 18 | #2,038 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,553 | 6.9 |
| 1967 | 12 | #2,453 | 6.9 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,203 | 7.8 |
| 1965 | 19 | #1,849 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 15 | #2,189 | 7.5 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,511 | 5.9 |
| 1962 | 17 | #2,025 | 8.2 |
| 1961 | 20 | #1,869 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 16 | #2,106 | 7.5 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,511 | 5.6 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,791 | 4.7 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,215 | 3.7 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,771 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,124 | 7.3 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,712 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 18 | #1,886 | 9.1 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,142 | 7.2 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,823 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,186 | 7.3 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,318 | 6.8 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,425 | 6.3 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,150 | 7.7 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,948 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,553 | 6.7 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,288 | 8.1 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,503 | 4.2 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,911 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,442 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,302 | 9.5 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,423 | 9.0 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,624 | 8.1 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,138 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 14 | #1,951 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,018 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,109 | 12.6 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,706 | 9.1 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,442 | 10.5 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,311 | 11.5 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,581 | 10.0 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,439 | 11.2 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,253 | 12.6 |
| 1927 | 18 | #1,947 | 16.0 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,542 | 10.8 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,904 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,993 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,588 | 10.9 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,464 | 11.9 |
| 1921 | 19 | #1,889 | 17.3 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,581 | 11.3 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,371 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,244 | 13.8 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,825 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,767 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Serafin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Serafin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 110 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Serafin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Serafin, and how old are they?
1,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 76% of the 1,782 Americans ever recorded as Serafin. The median Serafin alive today is 34 years old; half are between 20 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 4,513 people named Serafin (47 women and girls, 4,466 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,324 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.4 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 33 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 162 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 236 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 350 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 367 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 201 |
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 Serafin born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #1,959 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,523 | 1.2× |
Where Serafin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Serafin is most over-represented in California: since 1915 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Serafin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Serafin
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.
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- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Serafin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Serafin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.