Serene
Serene was given to 130 girls in 2025, #1,609 among girls’ names; 3,226 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,050 Americans named Serene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Serene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Serene mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Serene is “a female given name from English. A rare variant of Serena.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Serene?
#1,609 among girls’ names, 2025
Serene rose from #2,551 in 2015 to #1,609 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 39.8 to 80.9 per million.
130 babies in 2025, the peak
Serene peaked in 2025, when 130 girls were given it, #1,609 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 120 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 130 | #1,609 | 80.9 |
| 2024 | 120 | #1,706 | 74.1 |
| 2023 | 122 | #1,698 | 76.0 |
| 2022 | 80 | #2,343 | 48.8 |
| 2021 | 120 | #1,729 | 73.1 |
| 2020 | 90 | #2,061 | 55.7 |
| 2019 | 81 | #2,270 | 48.3 |
| 2018 | 75 | #2,416 | 44.1 |
| 2017 | 92 | #2,107 | 53.3 |
| 2016 | 78 | #2,410 | 44.0 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 71 | #2,551 | 39.8 |
| 2014 | 78 | #2,368 | 43.7 |
| 2013 | 70 | #2,564 | 39.9 |
| 2012 | 94 | #2,062 | 53.4 |
| 2011 | 77 | #2,413 | 43.8 |
| 2010 | 84 | #2,293 | 47.3 |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,312 | 46.3 |
| 2008 | 80 | #2,415 | 42.3 |
| 2007 | 73 | #2,565 | 38.0 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,971 | 30.5 |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,599 | 35.7 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,838 | 31.0 |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,695 | 32.3 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,810 | 30.1 |
| 2001 | 63 | #2,479 | 35.0 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,056 | 25.3 |
| 1999 | 51 | #2,726 | 28.8 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,838 | 26.6 |
| 1997 | 53 | #2,470 | 30.4 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,943 | 23.4 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,565 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,212 | 20.2 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,638 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,812 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,520 | 16.5 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,485 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,866 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,806 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,829 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,504 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,312 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,848 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,768 | 19.2 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,153 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,973 | 18.0 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,301 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,134 | 16.8 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,077 | 17.0 |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,764 | 19.6 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,111 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,136 | 15.8 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,896 | 17.0 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,309 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,154 | 13.8 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,243 | 12.6 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,437 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,176 | 11.3 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,547 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,561 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,518 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,716 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,583 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,986 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,486 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,741 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,713 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,250 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,144 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,846 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,413 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,675 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,954 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,847 | 3.8 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,202 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,183 | 4.7 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,881 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,336 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,763 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,566 | 4.4 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,808 | 6.1 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,658 | 6.7 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,992 | 4.7 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,876 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,153 | 4.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,644 | 5.2 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,824 | 6.7 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,837 | 6.7 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,602 | 4.1 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,931 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,387 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,657 | 4.2 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,739 | 5.2 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,215 | 8.6 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,742 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,111 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Serene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Serene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 95 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Serene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Serene, and how old are they?
3,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 3,226 Americans ever recorded as Serene. The median Serene alive today is 17 years old; half are between 8 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 2,455 people named Serene (2,430 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,443 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 19 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 102 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 280 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 410 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,200 |
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 Serene born?
The states with the most babies named Serene are California, New York and Florida, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 25 | #1,082 | 1.6× |
| New York | 13 | #1,147 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,418 | 0.4× |
| Texas | 9 | #2,367 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 9 | #847 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,259 | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 6 | #1,021 | 0.2× |
| Maryland | 6 | #825 | 0.1× |
Where Serene is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Serene is most over-represented in California: since 1914 it was given 1.6 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 Serene 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 57,532 babies since 1880, Serene is the third most given (5.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 130 of their 1,130 babies (12%), the second most given that year.
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 Serene
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 Serene and names like it
- Compare Serene and SerenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSerene peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Serene since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Serene: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Serene.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Serene alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.