Serge
Serge was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,790 among boys’ names; 1,628 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Serge and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 27 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Serge by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Serge mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Serge is “a male given name”
From Latin Sergius, possibly borrowed from Etruscan.
/sɛʁʒ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Serge?
#8,790 among boys’ names, 2025
Serge rose from #11,851 in 2015 to #8,790 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 5.3 per million.
39 babies in 1972, the peak
Serge peaked in 1972, when 39 boys were given it, #1,361 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,790 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,217 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,842 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,542 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,971 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,709 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,501 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,605 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,517 | 9.0 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,851 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 15 | #5,943 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,465 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 10 | #8,036 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,632 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,639 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,606 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,697 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,173 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,821 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,176 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,960 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,643 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 12 | #6,004 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,848 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,521 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,954 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,372 | 12.0 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,583 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,983 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,527 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,249 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,781 | 8.7 |
| 1992 | 15 | #4,062 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,601 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,279 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,065 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,580 | 12.0 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,539 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,985 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 25 | #2,215 | 13.5 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,424 | 11.6 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,556 | 10.6 |
| 1982 | 29 | #1,926 | 16.0 |
| 1981 | 35 | #1,685 | 19.5 |
| 1980 | 22 | #2,351 | 12.3 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,545 | 11.0 |
| 1978 | 18 | #2,549 | 11.0 |
| 1977 | 27 | #1,899 | 16.4 |
| 1976 | 19 | #2,397 | 12.1 |
| 1975 | 19 | #2,348 | 12.2 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,258 | 12.1 |
| 1973 | 24 | #1,864 | 15.4 |
| 1972 | 39 | #1,361 | 24.1 |
| 1971 | 29 | #1,662 | 16.4 |
| 1970 | 30 | #1,573 | 16.1 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,525 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 24 | #1,638 | 13.8 |
| 1967 | 20 | #1,803 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 23 | #1,644 | 12.9 |
| 1965 | 20 | #1,803 | 10.8 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,637 | 5.5 |
| 1963 | 19 | #1,887 | 9.4 |
| 1962 | 21 | #1,797 | 10.2 |
| 1961 | 26 | #1,595 | 12.2 |
| 1960 | 27 | #1,574 | 12.7 |
| 1959 | 18 | #1,964 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 21 | #1,759 | 9.9 |
| 1957 | 27 | #1,541 | 12.5 |
| 1956 | 27 | #1,528 | 12.8 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,035 | 7.8 |
| 1954 | 19 | #1,814 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,092 | 7.6 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,490 | 5.7 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,354 | 6.4 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,009 | 8.4 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,109 | 7.9 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,206 | 7.4 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,487 | 6.0 |
| 1946 | 9 | #2,670 | 5.5 |
| 1945 | 13 | #1,998 | 9.7 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,178 | 8.8 |
| 1943 | 16 | #1,893 | 11.2 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,912 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,099 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,866 | 4.3 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,592 | 8.1 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,834 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,180 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,597 | 8.7 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,234 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,962 | 8.1 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,302 | 11.5 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,249 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,541 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,510 | 6.5 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,043 | 8.1 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,103 | 8.1 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,686 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,222 | 7.9 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,464 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,871 | 4.7 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,690 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,325 | 7.9 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,908 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,458 | 7.9 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,029 | 9.4 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,212 | 9.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Serge a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Serge has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 107 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Serge: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Serge, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 1,628 Americans ever recorded as Serge. The median Serge alive today is 44 years old; half are between 27 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 4,986 people named Serge (20 women and girls, 4,966 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,287 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.9 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 34 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 226 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 322 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 313 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 227 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 135 |
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 Serge born?
The states with the most babies named Serge are New York, California and Florida, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 348 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| California | 60 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 58 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Serge is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Serge is most over-represented in New York: since 1914 it was given 2.8 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 boys’ 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 Serge 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 84,839 babies since 1880, Serge is the second most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 744 babies (1.2%), the third 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 Serge
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 Serge and names like it
- Compare Serge and SergioBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sSerge peaked in 1972.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Serge since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Serge: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Serge.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Serge alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.