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Seren vs Serina

American parents have registered 5,848 Serinas since 1880, against 1,081 Serens. But in 2025 it was Seren that was commoner, 58 babies to 34.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Seren 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

Of the 78 years in which either name was published, Serina for 72 years and Seren for 6 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Seren Serina
Total US births 1,0815,848
Most in one year 62214
Babies in 2025 5834
Estimated living today 1,1005,700
Median age today 1230
Peak year 20161998
Best rank 2,761st girls958th girls
Rank in 2025 3,167th4,172nd
First recorded 19811918
Girls / boys 1,026 / 555,848 / 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 Serens are over 12. That is 18 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 Seren Serina
England and Wales 8,029162
France 115145
Ireland 14222

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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Related comparisons

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