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Sarena

#9,361 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Sarena has been given to 2,483 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #9,361 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 97 recorded.

Babies named Sarena, 2025

1 in 301,000

Sarena over time, 1880–2025

Girls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sarena: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sarena means

Sarena is a given name.

The naming story behind Sarena

Wikidata records Sarena as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q98827067, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,483 girls were recorded with the name Sarena between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 97 in 1999; its best national rank was #1,649 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,142 in 2020 to #9,361 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,420 in 2015 to #9,361 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Sarena?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,361
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sarena sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sarena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sarenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sarena was born before 1995 — so the typical Sarena is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,472
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 27.7% of all recorded uses (688).

Is Sarena rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,465
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+781
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,941
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.3%
Peak was 1999 (97)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,649
1997

Spellings of Sarena

Sarena is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 46.2% against Sarena's 0.12%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sarena is used

Across 1910–2025, Sarena was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 143,891 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in —
  6. 6Colorado1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sarena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sarena around the world

Where Sarena ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1957–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Sarena

People whose public names include Sarena, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Sarena by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,361
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 781
Best rank ever
#1,649
1997
Peak year
1999
97 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,483
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Sarena

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

SareenaSarayaSariyaSarrahSaritaSaraySarahySarahiEllenaSarayuKalenaSariahSarinaSaryahArlenaDelenaSaralynAllenaVerenaSirenaAmeenaSariaKarenaJelena

Names with a curve like Sarena

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sarena, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KorinaTamiraTaviaMichelaMirellaAideDeonnaDenaeKerstinArinShayeRebeka

Sibling names for Sarena

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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