Seraphina
Seraphina was given to 489 girls in 2025, #600 among girls’ names; 4,093 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,060 Americans named Seraphina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Seraphina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Seraphina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Seraphina is “a female given name from Latin.”
From Late Latin Seraphina, name of obscure early martyrs, from biblical seraphim. By surface analysis, Seraphin + -a.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Seraphina?
#600 among girls’ names, 2025
Seraphina rose from #1,217 in 2015 to #600 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.11 to 0.30 per 1,000.
489 babies in 2025, the peak
Seraphina peaked in 2025, when 489 girls were given it, #600 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 363 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 489 | #600 | 0.30 |
| 2024 | 363 | #779 | 0.22 |
| 2023 | 267 | #970 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 247 | #1,038 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 231 | #1,085 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 176 | #1,275 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 258 | #1,003 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 225 | #1,100 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 204 | #1,197 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 212 | #1,183 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 204 | #1,217 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 175 | #1,343 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 174 | #1,345 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 151 | #1,496 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 153 | #1,466 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 108 | #1,884 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 88 | #2,239 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,366 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,922 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,553 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,469 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,262 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,832 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,476 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,573 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,740 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,778 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,944 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,896 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,016 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,504 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,309 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,028 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,250 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,781 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,474 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,780 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,883 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,708 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,333 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Seraphina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Seraphina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Seraphina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Seraphina, and how old are they?
4,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,093 Americans ever recorded as Seraphina. The median Seraphina alive today is 8 years old; half are between 3 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 2,173 people named Seraphina (2,170 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,342 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 73 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 780 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,210 |
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 Seraphina born?
The states with the most babies named Seraphina are California, Texas and New York, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 49 | #643 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 44 | #698 | 0.7× |
| New York | 35 | #493 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 30 | #595 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | #442 | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 18 | #462 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 16 | #493 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 16 | #656 | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 16 | #445 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 15 | #707 | 0.4× |
Where Seraphina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Seraphina is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1916 it was given 1.2 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 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 Seraphina 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 8,566 babies since 1880, Seraphina is the most given (48% of them). In 2025 it was given to 489 of their 790 babies (62%), 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 Seraphina
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 Seraphina and names like it
- Compare Seraphina and SerafinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSeraphina peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Seraphina since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Seraphina: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Seraphina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Seraphina alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.