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Serdar

Boys' name

From Ottoman Turkish سردار; literal meaning unconfirmed

Serdar has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1988. 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 1988, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Serdar, 1988

1 in 739,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Serdar: meaning, origin, and history

From Ottoman Turkish سردار; literal meaning unconfirmed

Persian

What Serdar means

Serdar is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Serdar is used in Turkish and Turkmen. Its origins include Persian.

Serdar comes through Ottoman Turkish سردار and fa-cls سردار.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Serdar is pronounced /seɾdɑɾ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Serdar between 1988 and 1988. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1988; its best national rank was #8,300 in 1988.

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 Serdar?

Serdar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1988
1 in 739,000
5 of 3,694,212 births
Among boys only
1 in 383,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1988
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
512,128 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Serdar 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 1988 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 512,128 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Serdar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Serdars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Serdar was born before 1988 — so the typical Serdar is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
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Choose a decade

1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Serdar 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 1988 (5)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#8,300
1988

Spellings of Serdar

Serdar is not the most common spelling — Cedar is, with 82.4% against Serdar's 0.16%.

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.

Serdar around the world

Where Serdar 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
    1997–2008
    #4,432
    in 2008
  • France
    1976–2020
    #6,119
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Serdar 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
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Best rank ever
#8,300
1988
Peak year
1988
5 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
1988
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Serdar

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

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Sibling names for Serdar

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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