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Sereen vs Serina

American parents have registered 5,848 Serinas since 1880, against 507 Sereens. Serina is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sereen against Serina, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sereen Serina

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

Serina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1918 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Sereen had 23 and Serina had 29.

Side by side

  Sereen Serina
Total US births 5075,848
Most in one year 26214
Babies in 2025 2234
Estimated living today 5005,700
Median age today 1230
Peak year 20231998
Best rank 4,999th girls958th girls
Rank in 2025 5,554th4,172nd
First recorded 19931918
Girls / boys 507 / 05,848 / 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 Serinas alive today are over 30; half the Sereens are over 12. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Sereen Serina
England and Wales 64162

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: Sereen and Serina.