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Seraphina vs Sereniti

American parents have registered 4,093 Seraphinas since 1880, against 1,018 Serenitis. Seraphina is still ahead, with 489 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Seraphina against Sereniti, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Seraphina Sereniti

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 40 years in which either name was published, Seraphina for 35 years and Sereniti for 5 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Seraphina Sereniti
Total US births 4,0931,018
Most in one year 48961
Babies in 2025 48926
Estimated living today 4,1001,000
Median age today 711
Peak year 20252023
Best rank 599th girls2,789th girls
Rank in 2025 599th4,987th
First recorded 19161994
Girls / boys 4,093 / 01,018 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Serenitis alive today are over 11; half the Seraphinas are over 7. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Seraphina and Sereniti.