Serena
Serena was given to 942 girls in 2025, #325 among girls’ names; 47,466 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 44,300 Americans named Serena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 15 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Serena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Serena mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Serena is “a female given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the sense “serene” (serena).
From the name of an early Christian saint, Latin serena (“serene”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Serena?
#325 among girls’ names, 2025
Serena rose from #410 in 2015 to #325 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.44 to 0.59 per 1,000.
1,504 babies in 2000, the peak
Serena peaked in 2000, when 1,504 girls were given it, #209 among girls’ names. The 942 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 942 | #325 | 0.59 |
| 2024 | 942 | #331 | 0.58 |
| 2023 | 821 | #375 | 0.51 |
| 2022 | 814 | #386 | 0.50 |
| 2021 | 810 | #388 | 0.49 |
| 2020 | 725 | #423 | 0.45 |
| 2019 | 748 | #424 | 0.45 |
| 2018 | 780 | #393 | 0.46 |
| 2017 | 768 | #415 | 0.44 |
| 2016 | 720 | #448 | 0.41 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 782 | #410 | 0.44 |
| 2014 | 704 | #456 | 0.39 |
| 2013 | 744 | #410 | 0.42 |
| 2012 | 716 | #436 | 0.41 |
| 2011 | 682 | #448 | 0.39 |
| 2010 | 687 | #449 | 0.39 |
| 2009 | 813 | #391 | 0.44 |
| 2008 | 882 | #375 | 0.47 |
| 2007 | 814 | #404 | 0.42 |
| 2006 | 810 | #396 | 0.43 |
| 2005 | 869 | #363 | 0.47 |
| 2004 | 1,063 | #302 | 0.58 |
| 2003 | 1,277 | #255 | 0.70 |
| 2002 | 1,306 | #244 | 0.73 |
| 2001 | 1,296 | #246 | 0.72 |
| 2000 | 1,504 | #209 | 0.83 |
| 1999 | 1,440 | #218 | 0.81 |
| 1998 | 1,401 | #220 | 0.79 |
| 1997 | 1,206 | #245 | 0.69 |
| 1996 | 925 | #309 | 0.53 |
| 1995 | 831 | #326 | 0.47 |
| 1994 | 620 | #404 | 0.35 |
| 1993 | 546 | #461 | 0.30 |
| 1992 | 500 | #491 | 0.27 |
| 1991 | 498 | #485 | 0.27 |
| 1990 | 477 | #504 | 0.25 |
| 1989 | 448 | #522 | 0.24 |
| 1988 | 416 | #530 | 0.23 |
| 1987 | 448 | #480 | 0.26 |
| 1986 | 453 | #474 | 0.26 |
| 1985 | 566 | #400 | 0.33 |
| 1984 | 577 | #385 | 0.34 |
| 1983 | 596 | #375 | 0.36 |
| 1982 | 594 | #389 | 0.35 |
| 1981 | 535 | #411 | 0.32 |
| 1980 | 630 | #372 | 0.38 |
| 1979 | 502 | #419 | 0.31 |
| 1978 | 471 | #429 | 0.31 |
| 1977 | 507 | #407 | 0.33 |
| 1976 | 453 | #437 | 0.31 |
| 1975 | 444 | #445 | 0.30 |
| 1974 | 387 | #466 | 0.26 |
| 1973 | 404 | #458 | 0.28 |
| 1972 | 450 | #432 | 0.30 |
| 1971 | 587 | #386 | 0.35 |
| 1970 | 639 | #374 | 0.37 |
| 1969 | 676 | #346 | 0.40 |
| 1968 | 441 | #459 | 0.27 |
| 1967 | 261 | #592 | 0.16 |
| 1966 | 200 | #693 | 0.12 |
| 1965 | 181 | #744 | 0.10 |
| 1964 | 203 | #732 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 180 | #771 | 0.09 |
| 1962 | 169 | #805 | 0.09 |
| 1961 | 142 | #910 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 115 | #1,005 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 163 | #803 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 151 | #826 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 116 | #963 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 98 | #1,038 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 125 | #870 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 85 | #1,070 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 79 | #1,094 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 84 | #1,026 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 84 | #1,017 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 70 | #1,106 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 68 | #1,101 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 66 | #1,102 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 66 | #1,102 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 70 | #1,013 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 59 | #1,013 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 67 | #952 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 47 | #1,192 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 59 | #1,021 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 37 | #1,264 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 56 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 49 | #1,021 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 59 | #930 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 36 | #1,218 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,409 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 33 | #1,261 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,402 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 34 | #1,239 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,485 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 33 | #1,279 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,528 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,478 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 47 | #1,111 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 41 | #1,228 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 30 | #1,508 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 50 | #1,088 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 35 | #1,403 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 37 | #1,301 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 41 | #1,225 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 46 | #1,134 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 51 | #1,047 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 35 | #1,318 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 48 | #1,055 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 57 | #921 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 43 | #1,081 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 38 | #1,112 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 35 | #1,021 | 0.05 |
| 1913 | 24 | #1,143 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 31 | #918 | 0.06 |
| 1911 | 17 | #1,103 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 31 | #779 | 0.08 |
| 1909 | 24 | #842 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 25 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1907 | 22 | #813 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 21 | #816 | 0.07 |
| 1905 | 20 | #846 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 14 | #995 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 17 | #858 | 0.06 |
| 1902 | 26 | #665 | 0.10 |
| 1901 | 18 | #793 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 31 | #638 | 0.10 |
| 1899 | 17 | #813 | 0.07 |
| 1898 | 23 | #695 | 0.09 |
| 1897 | 22 | #676 | 0.09 |
| 1896 | 28 | #593 | 0.12 |
| 1895 | 18 | #767 | 0.08 |
| 1894 | 13 | #899 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 13 | #860 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 20 | #662 | 0.09 |
| 1891 | 15 | #724 | 0.08 |
| 1890 | 15 | #721 | 0.08 |
| 1889 | 24 | #530 | 0.13 |
| 1888 | 14 | #718 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 16 | #584 | 0.11 |
| 1886 | 15 | #602 | 0.10 |
| 1885 | 13 | #623 | 0.10 |
| 1884 | 9 | #783 | 0.07 |
| 1883 | 10 | #646 | 0.09 |
| 1882 | 14 | #501 | 0.13 |
| 1881 | 13 | #487 | 0.14 |
| 1880 | 13 | #489 | 0.14 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Serena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Serena has been given almost only to girls: 16 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Serena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Serena, and how old are they?
44,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 47,466 Americans ever recorded as Serena. The median Serena alive today is 26 years old; half are between 15 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 38,170 people named Serena (38,120 women and girls, 50 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 40,003 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 253 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,710 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6,740 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,800 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 16,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,200 |
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 Serena born?
The states with the most babies named Serena are California, Texas and Florida, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 151 | #220 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 94 | #367 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 84 | #221 | 1.0× |
| New York | 78 | #223 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 52 | #156 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #302 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 33 | #338 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 29 | #314 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 27 | #429 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 26 | #416 | 0.7× |
Where Serena is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Serena is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.5 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 Serena 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 57,622 babies since 1880, Serena is the most given (82% of them). In 2025 it was given to 942 of their 1,118 babies (84%), 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 Serena
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 Serena and names like it
- Compare Serena and SerinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSerena peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Serena since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Serena: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Serena.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Serena alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.