Serine
Serine was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,879 among girls’ names; 115 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Serine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Serine?
#16,879 among girls’ names, 2025
Serine entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #16,879 in 2025.
10 babies in 2017, the peak
Serine peaked in 2017, when 10 girls were given it, #10,576 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,879 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,153 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,372 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,299 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,975 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,591 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,445 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,576 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,933 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,791 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #14,359 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,097 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,588 | 4.0 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,873 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,238 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,936 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,415 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Serine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Serine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Serine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Serine, and how old are they?
An estimated 114 Americans named Serine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 6 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 206 people named Serine (198 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 83 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 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.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 57,238 babies since 1880, Serine is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 1,129 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Serine
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 Serine and names like it
- Compare Serine and SerenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Names starting with SMost given first.