Seraphine
Seraphine was given to 56 girls in 2025, #2,993 among girls’ names; 761 Americans have been recorded with it since 1892 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Seraphine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Seraphine mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Seraphine is “a female given name from Latin.”
Anglicized spelling of French Séraphine.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Seraphine?
#2,993 among girls’ names, 2025
Seraphine rose from #5,431 in 2015 to #2,993 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.0 to 34.8 per million.
56 babies in 2025, the peak
Seraphine peaked in 2025, when 56 girls were given it, #2,993 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 42 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,993 | 34.8 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,687 | 25.9 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,176 | 21.8 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,643 | 26.2 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,789 | 24.4 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,431 | 19.2 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,761 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,969 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,495 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,841 | 22.6 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,431 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,753 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,291 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,687 | 13.6 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,804 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,460 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,385 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,458 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,490 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,169 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,236 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,312 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,065 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,853 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,112 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,349 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,113 | 2.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,142 | 5.7 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,347 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,706 | 6.9 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,726 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,836 | 6.7 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,982 | 6.6 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,891 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,376 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,969 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,872 | 10.0 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,419 | 8.0 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,995 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,530 | 12.0 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,503 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,869 | 10.2 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,110 | 6.6 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,632 | 8.0 |
| 1907 | 6 | #2,026 | 18.8 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,189 | 17.1 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,679 | 22.4 |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,256 | 33.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Seraphine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 761 Americans recorded as Seraphine, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 56 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Seraphine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Seraphine, and how old are they?
An estimated 591 Americans named Seraphine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 539 people named Seraphine (518 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 361 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,854 babies since 1880, Seraphine is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 56 of their 545 babies (10%), again the second 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 Seraphine
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 Seraphine and names like it
- Compare Seraphine and SeraphinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSeraphine peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Seraphine since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Seraphine: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Seraphine.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Seraphine alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.