Meaning not yet researched.
Sera: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,925 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,925 in 1997; #6,082 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sera in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,082 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #1,925.
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Sera: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,925 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 76 (1997).
In 2025, 20 US girls were named Sera, making it the 6,082nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,073 places from #10,155 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 10 girls named Sera in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,925, reached in 1997. That year also had the most girls given the name: 76. For comparison, it was #4,395 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sera in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1954 with 5 babies. In all, 1,616 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 512 babies named Sera.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 179 US girls were named Sera; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 26. In 2025 that was about 1 in 80,363 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Sara (437,441 babies since 1880), Sierra (100,866 babies since 1880), Ciera (11,372 babies since 1880) and Siera (2,543 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zehra, Syrai and Seraya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Amis and Icelandic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zehra (729), Syrai (362), Seraya (169), Syrah (149), Zerah (109), Syrae (28).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Sera in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,082 | — | — |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,155 | — | — |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,887 | — | — |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,431 | — | — |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,967 | — | — |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,962 | — | — |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,592 | — | — |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,440 | — | — |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,052 | — | — |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,266 | — | — |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,395 | — | — |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,147 | — | — |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,146 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,087 | — | — |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,710 | — | — |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,948 | — | — |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,791 | — | — |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,074 | — | — |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,198 | — | — |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,305 | — | — |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,255 | — | — |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,841 | — | — |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,736 | — | — |
| 2002 | 62 | #2,548 | — | — |
| 2001 | 66 | #2,406 | — | — |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,771 | — | — |
| 1999 | 72 | #2,126 | — | — |
| 1998 | 73 | #2,043 | — | — |
| 1997 | 76 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 1996 | 64 | #2,146 | — | — |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,080 | — | — |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,493 | — | — |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,224 | — | — |
| 1992 | 20 | #5,007 | — | — |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,617 | — | — |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,659 | — | — |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,464 | — | — |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,782 | — | — |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,608 | — | — |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,739 | — | — |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,101 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,935 | — | — |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,644 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,468 | — | — |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,295 | — | — |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,112 | — | — |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,578 | — | — |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,216 | — | — |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,386 | — | — |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,845 | — | — |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,353 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,510 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,330 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,730 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,389 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,482 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).