Serenity
Serenity was given to 2,209 girls in 2025, #129 among girls’ names; 77,625 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 77,000 Americans named Serenity and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Serenity by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Serenity mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Serenity is “a female given name from English in general use since the 1990s.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Serenity?
#129 among girls’ names, 2025
Serenity fell from #71 in 2015 to #129 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 2.2 to 1.4 per 1,000.
4,481 babies in 2013, the peak
Serenity peaked in 2013, when 4,481 babies were given it (4,475 girls, #52 among girls’ names). The 2,209 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,209 | #129 | 1.4 |
| 2024 | 2,359 | #117 | 1.5 |
| 2023 | 2,574 | #102 | 1.6 |
| 2022 | 2,811 | #94 | 1.7 |
| 2021 | 3,086 | #84 | 1.9 |
| 2020 | 3,444 | #69 | 2.1 |
| 2019 | 3,441 | #77 | 2.1 |
| 2018 | 3,570 | #75 | 2.1 |
| 2017 | 3,596 | #78 | 2.1 |
| 2016 | 3,871 | #70 | 2.2 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4,006 | #71 | 2.2 |
| 2014 | 4,356 | #58 | 2.4 |
| 2013 | 4,475 | #52 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 4,248 | #58 | 2.4 |
| 2011 | 3,872 | #66 | 2.2 |
| 2010 | 3,486 | #83 | 2.0 |
| 2009 | 3,489 | #93 | 1.9 |
| 2008 | 3,123 | #111 | 1.7 |
| 2007 | 2,738 | #126 | 1.4 |
| 2006 | 2,601 | #134 | 1.4 |
| 2005 | 1,989 | #168 | 1.1 |
| 2004 | 1,786 | #191 | 1.0 |
| 2003 | 1,413 | #234 | 0.77 |
| 2002 | 1,074 | #290 | 0.60 |
| 2001 | 784 | #377 | 0.44 |
| 2000 | 654 | #433 | 0.36 |
| 1999 | 524 | #497 | 0.30 |
| 1998 | 253 | #843 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 200 | #978 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 152 | #1,191 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 127 | #1,313 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 111 | #1,436 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 89 | #1,687 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 93 | #1,636 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 59 | #2,228 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 67 | #2,019 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,558 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 51 | #2,233 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,835 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 52 | #2,072 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,473 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,561 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 37 | #2,506 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 48 | #2,142 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 65 | #1,752 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,879 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 57 | #1,871 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 76 | #1,500 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 70 | #1,555 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 69 | #1,511 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,398 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,819 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,531 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,119 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Serenity a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Serenity has been given almost only to girls: 75 boys in 54 years of records.
Girls and boys named Serenity: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Serenity, and how old are they?
77,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 77,625 Americans ever recorded as Serenity. The median Serenity alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 47,964 people named Serenity (47,879 women and girls, 85 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 61,555 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 389 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,080 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 32,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 43,600 |
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 Serenity born?
The states with the most babies named Serenity are Texas, California and Florida, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 225 | #141 | 1.0× |
| California | 192 | #163 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 174 | #94 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 122 | #60 | 1.3× |
| New York | 107 | #150 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 100 | #103 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 95 | #105 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 89 | #120 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 85 | #72 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 84 | #81 | 1.2× |
Where Serenity is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Serenity is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1972 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 Serenity 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 80,446 babies since 1880, Serenity is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,209 of their 2,255 babies (98%), 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 Serenity
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 Serenity and names like it
- Compare Serenity and SerinityBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSerenity peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Serenity since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Serenity: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Serenity.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Serenity alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.