Meaning not yet researched.
Serena: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 942 in 2025. Its best rank was #209 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #209 in 2000; #325 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Serena in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#325 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #209.
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Serena: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 942 girls in 2025. Peak: #209 in 2000 · most girls in one year: 1,504 (2000).
In 2025, 942 US girls were named Serena, making it the 325th most common girls’ name of the year, up 6 places from #331 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 942 girls named Serena in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #209, reached in 2000. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,504. For comparison, it was #410 in 2015 and #1,107 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Serena in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 13 babies with the name. In all, 47,466 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 10,634 babies named Serena.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,070 US girls were named Serena; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 942. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,706 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Serena ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #144 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Serina (5,848 babies since 1880) and Sirena (3,192 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cyrena, Syrena and Cerena are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Rena.
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 Dutch, English and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cyrena (822), Syrena (693), Cerena (566), Cerina (548), Sereena (278), Serrina (233), Serenna (212), Zerina (208), Seryna (207), Syrina (175), Serenah (152), Serana (143), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 6 | #144 | — |
| New Jersey | 52 | #156 | #282 |
| California | 151 | #220 | #298 |
| Florida | 84 | #221 | #420 |
| New York | 78 | #223 | #302 |
| Montana | 5 | #251 | — |
| Nevada | 11 | #262 | #637 |
| Connecticut | 13 | #267 | #333 |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #302 | #351 |
| Arizona | 24 | #303 | #342 |
| Michigan | 29 | #314 | #327 |
| Georgia | 33 | #338 | #482 |
| Virginia | 24 | #344 | #410 |
| Massachusetts | 17 | #351 | #318 |
| Wisconsin | 15 | #362 | #327 |
| Texas | 94 | #367 | #578 |
| Washington | 19 | #388 | #368 |
| Oregon | 10 | #389 | #457 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #391 | — |
| Illinois | 26 | #416 | #532 |
| Maryland | 13 | #423 | #566 |
| Ohio | 27 | #429 | #461 |
| Iowa | 8 | #433 | #512 |
| South Carolina | 11 | #463 | #744 |
| Utah | 9 | #482 | — |
| Arkansas | 7 | #484 | — |
| Kansas | 7 | #491 | #610 |
| North Carolina | 22 | #508 | #434 |
| Indiana | 13 | #540 | #440 |
| Colorado | 10 | #579 | #407 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #590 | #467 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #700 | #664 |
| Alabama | 7 | #705 | — |
| Missouri | 8 | #720 | #464 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #738 | #455 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #886 | #871 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 942 | #325 | — | — |
| 2024 | 942 | #331 | — | — |
| 2023 | 821 | #375 | — | — |
| 2022 | 814 | #386 | — | — |
| 2021 | 810 | #388 | — | — |
| 2020 | 725 | #423 | — | — |
| 2019 | 748 | #424 | — | — |
| 2018 | 780 | #393 | — | — |
| 2017 | 768 | #415 | — | — |
| 2016 | 720 | #448 | — | — |
| 2015 | 782 | #410 | — | — |
| 2014 | 704 | #456 | — | — |
| 2013 | 744 | #410 | — | — |
| 2012 | 716 | #436 | — | — |
| 2011 | 682 | #448 | — | — |
| 2010 | 687 | #449 | — | — |
| 2009 | 813 | #391 | — | — |
| 2008 | 882 | #375 | — | — |
| 2007 | 814 | #404 | — | — |
| 2006 | 810 | #396 | — | — |
| 2005 | 869 | #363 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,063 | #302 | — | — |
| 2003 | 1,277 | #255 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,306 | #244 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,296 | #246 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,504 | #209 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,440 | #218 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,401 | #220 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,206 | #245 | — | — |
| 1996 | 925 | #309 | — | — |
| 1995 | 831 | #326 | — | — |
| 1994 | 620 | #404 | — | — |
| 1993 | 546 | #461 | — | — |
| 1992 | 500 | #491 | — | — |
| 1991 | 498 | #485 | — | — |
| 1990 | 477 | #505 | — | — |
| 1989 | 448 | #522 | 6 | #7,741 |
| 1988 | 416 | #530 | — | — |
| 1987 | 448 | #480 | — | — |
| 1986 | 453 | #474 | — | — |
| 1985 | 566 | #400 | 5 | #7,403 |
| 1984 | 577 | #385 | — | — |
| 1983 | 596 | #375 | — | — |
| 1982 | 594 | #389 | — | — |
| 1981 | 535 | #411 | — | — |
| 1980 | 630 | #372 | — | — |
| 1979 | 502 | #419 | — | — |
| 1978 | 471 | #429 | — | — |
| 1977 | 507 | #407 | — | — |
| 1976 | 453 | #437 | — | — |
| 1975 | 444 | #445 | — | — |
| 1974 | 387 | #466 | — | — |
| 1973 | 404 | #458 | — | — |
| 1972 | 450 | #432 | — | — |
| 1971 | 587 | #386 | — | — |
| 1970 | 639 | #374 | 5 | #5,323 |
| 1969 | 676 | #346 | — | — |
| 1968 | 441 | #459 | — | — |
| 1967 | 261 | #592 | — | — |
| 1966 | 200 | #693 | — | — |
| 1965 | 181 | #744 | — | — |
| 1964 | 203 | #732 | — | — |
| 1963 | 180 | #771 | — | — |
| 1962 | 169 | #805 | — | — |
| 1961 | 142 | #910 | — | — |
| 1960 | 115 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1959 | 163 | #803 | — | — |
| 1958 | 151 | #827 | — | — |
| 1957 | 116 | #964 | — | — |
| 1956 | 98 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1955 | 125 | #871 | — | — |
| 1954 | 85 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1953 | 79 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 1952 | 84 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1951 | 84 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 1950 | 70 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1949 | 68 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1948 | 66 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1947 | 66 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1946 | 70 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1945 | 59 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1944 | 67 | #952 | — | — |
| 1943 | 47 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1942 | 59 | #1,021 | — | — |
| 1941 | 37 | #1,264 | — | — |
| 1940 | 56 | #962 | — | — |
| 1939 | 49 | #1,021 | — | — |
| 1938 | 59 | #930 | — | — |
| 1937 | 36 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,409 | — | — |
| 1935 | 33 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,402 | — | — |
| 1933 | 34 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1931 | 33 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,529 | — | — |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 1928 | 47 | #1,111 | — | — |
| 1927 | 41 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 1926 | 30 | #1,509 | — | — |
| 1925 | 50 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 1924 | 35 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 1923 | 37 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1922 | 41 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1921 | 46 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 1920 | 51 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1919 | 35 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1918 | 48 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 1917 | 57 | #921 | — | — |
| 1916 | 43 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1915 | 38 | #1,112 | — | — |
| 1914 | 35 | #1,021 | — | — |
| 1913 | 24 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 1912 | 31 | #918 | — | — |
| 1911 | 17 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1910 | 31 | #779 | — | — |
| 1909 | 24 | #842 | — | — |
| 1908 | 25 | #784 | — | — |
| 1907 | 22 | #813 | — | — |
| 1906 | 21 | #816 | — | — |
| 1905 | 20 | #846 | — | — |
| 1904 | 14 | #995 | — | — |
| 1903 | 17 | #858 | — | — |
| 1902 | 26 | #665 | — | — |
| 1901 | 18 | #793 | — | — |
| 1900 | 31 | #638 | — | — |
| 1899 | 17 | #813 | — | — |
| 1898 | 23 | #695 | — | — |
| 1897 | 22 | #676 | — | — |
| 1896 | 28 | #593 | — | — |
| 1895 | 18 | #767 | — | — |
| 1894 | 13 | #899 | — | — |
| 1893 | 13 | #860 | — | — |
| 1892 | 20 | #662 | — | — |
| 1891 | 15 | #724 | — | — |
| 1890 | 15 | #721 | — | — |
| 1889 | 24 | #530 | — | — |
| 1888 | 14 | #718 | — | — |
| 1887 | 16 | #584 | — | — |
| 1886 | 15 | #602 | — | — |
| 1885 | 13 | #623 | — | — |
| 1884 | 9 | #783 | — | — |
| 1883 | 10 | #646 | — | — |
| 1882 | 14 | #501 | — | — |
| 1881 | 13 | #487 | — | — |
| 1880 | 13 | #489 | — | — |
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).