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Seraiah

#5,078 in 2025Girls' name

Yahweh is ruler

Seraiah has been given to 402 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #5,078 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Seraiah, 2025

1 in 128,000

Seraiah over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Seraiah: meaning, origin, and history

Yahweh is ruler

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Seraiah means

Seraiah means “Yahweh is ruler”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 390 girls were recorded with the name Seraiah between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,078 in 2025.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,822 in 2015 to #5,078 in 2025.

In the United States, 12 boys were recorded with the name Seraiah between 2013 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2013; its best national rank was #11,793 in 2020.

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 Seraiah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 128,000
26 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 61,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,078
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
88,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Seraiah 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 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Seraiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Seraiahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Seraiah was born before 2010 — so the typical Seraiah is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
390
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.7% of all recorded uses (147).

Is Seraiah 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
+1,043
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,744
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (26)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,078
2025

Spellings of Seraiah

Seraiah is not the most common spelling — Sariah is, with 55.3% against Seraiah's 2.2%.

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 Seraiah is used

Across 1910–2025, Seraiah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,489,983 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Seraiah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Seraiah around the world

Where Seraiah 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
    2011–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Seraiah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,078
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,078
2025
Peak year
2025
26 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
390
Count in 2025
26

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,793
2020
Peak year
2013
6 that year
First recorded
2013
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Seraiah

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

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Sibling names for Seraiah

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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