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Seraphina vs Sergio

American parents have registered 82,233 Sergios since 1880, against 4,093 Seraphinas. Sergio is still ahead, with 714 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Seraphina against Sergio, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Seraphina Sergio

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

Sergio has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1913 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Seraphina had 489 and Sergio had 714.

Side by side

  Seraphina Sergio
Total US births 4,09382,233
Most in one year 4892,261
Babies in 2025 489714
Estimated living today 4,10078,000
Median age today 728
Peak year 20251995
Best rank 599th girls158th boys
Rank in 2025 599th441st
First recorded 19161913
Girls / boys 4,093 / 0355 / 81,878

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 Sergios alive today are over 28; half the Seraphinas are over 7. That is 21 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Seraphina Sergio
France 303,430
England and Wales 589345
Switzerland 101302

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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