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Serenity vs Seroba

American parents have registered 77,625 Serenitys since 1880, against 8 Serobas. Serenity is still ahead, with 2,209 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Serenity Seroba

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 55 years in which either name was published, Serenity for 54 years and Seroba for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Serenity Seroba
Total US births 77,6258
Most in one year 4,4818
Babies in 2025 2,209under 5
Estimated living today 77,0000
Median age today 1198
Peak year 20131927
Best rank 52nd girls3,561st girls
Rank in 2025 129thunranked
First recorded 19721927
Girls / boys 77,550 / 758 / 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 Serobas alive today are over 98; half the Serenitys are over 11. That is 87 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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