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Serina vs Seroba

American parents have registered 5,848 Serinas since 1880, against 8 Serobas. Serina is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Serina 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 79 years in which either name was published, Serina for 78 years and Seroba for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Serina Seroba
Total US births 5,8488
Most in one year 2148
Babies in 2025 34under 5
Estimated living today 5,7000
Median age today 3098
Peak year 19981927
Best rank 958th girls3,561st girls
Rank in 2025 4,172ndunranked
First recorded 19181927
Girls / boys 5,848 / 08 / 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 Serinas are over 30. That is 68 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: Serina and Seroba.