Meaning not yet researched.
Serafina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 245 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,024 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Serafina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,024 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Serafina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 245 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,024 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 245 (2025).
In 2025, 245 US girls were named Serafina, making it the 1,024th most common girls’ name of the year, up 204 places from #1,228 in 2024. That is 53 more than the 192 girls named Serafina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,024, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 245. For comparison, it was #1,607 in 2015 and #4,255 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Serafina in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1901 with 8 babies. In all, 3,712 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,174 babies named Serafina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,601 US girls were named Serafina; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 245. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,560 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Serafina ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #274 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Seraphina (4,093 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sarafina, Afina and Serafine 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 Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sarafina (754), Afina (52), Serafine (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Serafina in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 31 | #274 | #497 |
| Connecticut | 9 | #347 | — |
| New York | 48 | #357 | #1,061 |
| Illinois | 15 | #661 | — |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #752 | #818 |
| Washington | 7 | #897 | — |
| Michigan | 8 | #949 | #1,099 |
| Florida | 14 | #1,104 | #1,805 |
| California | 22 | #1,182 | #1,204 |
| Texas | 22 | #1,219 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,375 | #1,106 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,417 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 245 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 2024 | 192 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 2023 | 148 | #1,481 | — | — |
| 2022 | 173 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 2021 | 170 | #1,326 | — | — |
| 2020 | 158 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 2019 | 166 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 2018 | 102 | #1,951 | — | — |
| 2017 | 129 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,772 | — | — |
| 2015 | 134 | #1,607 | — | — |
| 2014 | 118 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 2013 | 120 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 2012 | 102 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 2011 | 102 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 2010 | 83 | #2,310 | — | — |
| 2009 | 98 | #2,088 | — | — |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,658 | — | — |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,468 | — | — |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,150 | — | — |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,311 | — | — |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,684 | — | — |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,791 | — | — |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,646 | — | — |
| 2001 | 41 | #3,357 | — | — |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,763 | — | — |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,788 | — | — |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,928 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,114 | — | — |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,056 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,536 | — | — |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,589 | — | — |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,957 | — | — |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,583 | — | — |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,894 | — | — |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,660 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,609 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,590 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,601 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,351 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,849 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,684 | — | — |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,771 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,221 | — | — |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,834 | — | — |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,684 | — | — |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,483 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,238 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,950 | — | — |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,885 | — | — |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,680 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,203 | — | — |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,438 | — | — |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,485 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,917 | — | — |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,379 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,128 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,938 | — | — |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,792 | — | — |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,452 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,905 | — | — |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,223 | — | — |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,971 | — | — |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,741 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,613 | — | — |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,965 | — | — |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,770 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,954 | — | — |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,255 | — | — |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,580 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,909 | — | — |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,970 | — | — |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,635 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,141 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,616 | — | — |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,211 | — | — |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,468 | — | — |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,379 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,799 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,744 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,771 | — | — |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,707 | — | — |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,228 | — | — |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,369 | — | — |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,476 | — | — |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,560 | — | — |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,406 | — | — |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,564 | — | — |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,365 | — | — |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,248 | — | — |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,334 | — | — |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,268 | — | — |
| 1924 | 34 | #1,436 | — | — |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,588 | — | — |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,273 | — | — |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,817 | — | — |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,447 | — | — |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,142 | — | — |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,276 | — | — |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,193 | — | — |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,350 | — | — |
| 1915 | 16 | #2,038 | — | — |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,837 | — | — |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,751 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,920 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,808 | — | — |
| 1907 | 6 | #2,026 | — | — |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,696 | — | — |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #2,045 | — | — |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,320 | — | — |
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).