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Seraya

#5,529 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Seraiah

Seraya has been given to 169 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #5,529 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Seraya, 2025

1 in 144,000

Seraya over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Seraya: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Seraiah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Seraya means

Seraya is a form of Seraiah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Seraya → Seraiah. The family’s meaning is “Yahweh is ruler”, recorded in the naming reference for Seraiah.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Seraiah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 169 girls were recorded with the name Seraya between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,529 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,146 in 2020 to #5,529 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,268 in 2015 to #5,529 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 Seraya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 69,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,529
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Seraya 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Seraya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Serayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Seraya was born before 2020 — so the typical Seraya is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
52.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
169
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 52.7% of all recorded uses (89).

Is Seraya 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
+2,826
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,617
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+8,739
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (23)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,529
2025

Spellings of Seraya

Seraya is not the most common spelling — Serena is, with 42.4% against Seraya's 0.15%.

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.

Seraya around the world

Where Seraya 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
    2000–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    2010–2025
    #5,616
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2015–2015
    #3,185
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1983–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Seraya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,529
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,617
Best rank ever
#5,529
2025
Peak year
2025
23 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
169
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Seraya

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

SeranaSerynaSerineSereiaSerennaSeriahSereenSeraiSerriaSalayaLavayaRuqayaSerinSeriyaSavayaKelayaSimayaSinayaDalayaZelayaAhmayaAnaayaSemayaArraya

Sibling names for Seraya

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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