Seren
Seren is given to both girls and boys: 50 girls and 8 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,207 among girls’ names and #9,566 among boys’, #5,138 among all names counting both); 1,081 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,070 Americans named Seren and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Seren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Seren mean?
Wiktionary, Welsh section
Seren is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “star” (seren).
From seren (“star”).
/ˈsɛrɛn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Welsh section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Seren?
#3,207 among girls’ names, 2025
Seren rose from #3,470 in 2015 to #3,207 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 25.8 to 31.1 per million.
62 babies in 2016, the peak
Seren peaked in 2016, when 62 girls were given it, #2,792 among girls’ names. The 58 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 94% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #3,207 | 31.1 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,647 | 18.5 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,637 | 18.7 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,883 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,663 | 25.6 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,149 | 21.0 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,287 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,910 | 22.3 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,753 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,792 | 35.0 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,470 | 25.8 |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,361 | 26.9 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,258 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,260 | 29.0 |
| 2011 | 57 | #3,008 | 32.4 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,152 | 29.8 |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,505 | 25.6 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,699 | 23.3 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,923 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,351 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,569 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,539 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,562 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,410 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,907 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,089 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,779 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,171 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,405 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,157 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,396 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,100 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,112 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,251 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,607 | 3.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,990 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,211 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,778 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Seren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,081 Americans recorded as Seren, 95% are girls and 5% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Seren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Seren, and how old are they?
1,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,081 Americans ever recorded as Seren. The median Seren alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 972 people named Seren (884 women and girls, 88 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 835 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Seren rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 56 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 459 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 556 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,683 babies since 1880, Seren is the most given (64% of them). In 2025 it was given to 58 of their 87 babies (67%), 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 Seren
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 Seren and names like it
- Compare Seren and SereenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSeren peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Seren since 1910.
- Welsh namesWiktionary’s origin for Seren: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Seren.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Seren alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.