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Serafino

Boys' name

Angelic, seraphic, through seraphīm

Serafino has been given to 272 babies in the U.S. since 1912. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Serafino, 2023

1 in 474,000

Serafino over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Serafino: meaning, origin, and history

Angelic, seraphic, through seraphīm

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Serafino means

Serafino belongs to the name family reached through Serafino → seraphīm. Its meaning is “angelic, seraphic”.

Origin, language, and formation

Serafino is used in Italian.

Serafino comes through Latin seraphīm and Hebrew שְׂרָפִים.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include seraphīm.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Serafino is pronounced /se.raˈfi.no/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 272 boys were recorded with the name Serafino between 1912 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,952 in 1915.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Serafino?

Serafino had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
328,234 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Serafino sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 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 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Serafino. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Serafinos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Serafino was born before 1924 — so the typical Serafino is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
38.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1920s — 38.2% of all recorded uses (104).

Is Serafino 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (15)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,952
1915

Spellings of Serafino

Serafino is not the most common spelling — Serafin is, with 86.8% against Serafino's 13.2%.

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 Serafino is used

Across 1910–2025, Serafino was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 525,005 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Serafino has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Serafino around the world

Where Serafino 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.

  • France
    1958–1971
    #1,656
    in 1971
  • South Australia
    1958–2004
    #404
    in 2004

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Serafino by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,952
1915
Peak year
1915
15 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
272
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Serafino

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

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Sibling names for Serafino

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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