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Serge vs Serina

American parents have registered 5,848 Serinas since 1880, against 1,628 Serges. Serina is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Serge 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 108 years in which either name was published, Serina for 61 years and Serge for 47 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Serge Serina
Total US births 1,6285,848
Most in one year 39214
Babies in 2025 934
Estimated living today 1,3005,700
Median age today 4330
Peak year 19721998
Best rank 1,348th boys958th girls
Rank in 2025 8,243rd4,172nd
First recorded 19141918
Girls / boys 0 / 1,6285,848 / 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 Serges alive today are over 43; half the Serinas are over 30. That is 13 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 Serge Serina
France 219,355145
England and Wales 75162

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: Serge and Serina.