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Sereniti vs Serenity

American parents have registered 77,625 Serenitys since 1880, against 1,018 Serenitis. Serenity is still ahead, with 2,209 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sereniti against Serenity, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sereniti Serenity

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

Serenity has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1972 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1994, when Sereniti had 5 and Serenity had 111.

Side by side

  Sereniti Serenity
Total US births 1,01877,625
Most in one year 614,481
Babies in 2025 262,209
Estimated living today 1,00077,000
Median age today 1111
Peak year 20232013
Best rank 2,789th girls52nd girls
Rank in 2025 4,987th129th
First recorded 19941972
Girls / boys 1,018 / 077,550 / 75

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.

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: Sereniti and Serenity.