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Serafina vs Serinity

American parents have registered 3,712 Serafinas since 1880, against 1,190 Serinitys. Serafina is still ahead, with 245 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Serafina against Serinity, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Serafina Serinity

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 112 years in which either name was published, Serafina for 107 years and Serinity for 5 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Serafina Serinity
Total US births 3,7121,190
Most in one year 24596
Babies in 2025 24512
Estimated living today 3,2001,200
Median age today 1014
Peak year 20252009
Best rank 1,022nd girls2,102nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,022nd8,362nd
First recorded 19011994
Girls / boys 3,712 / 01,190 / 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 Serinitys alive today are over 14; half the Serafinas are over 10. That is 4 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.

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