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Seren

#3,207 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

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Seren has been given to 1,081 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #3,207 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 62 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.

Babies named Seren, 2025

1 in 66,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Seren over time

In 2025, Seren went to 86% girls and 14% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Seren: meaning, origin, and history

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Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Seren means

Seren means “star”, associated with seren.

Origin, language, and formation

Seren is used in Turkish and Welsh.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Seren is pronounced /ˈsɛrɛn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,026 girls were recorded with the name Seren between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 62 in 2016; its best national rank was #2,792 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,149 in 2020 to #3,207 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,470 in 2015 to #3,207 in 2025.

In the United States, 55 boys were recorded with the name Seren between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2024; its best national rank was #8,863 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,709 in 2020 to #9,566 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Seren?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 66,300
50 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 32,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,207
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Seren 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 45,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Seren. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Serens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Seren was born before 2013 — so the typical Seren is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,026
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.9% of all recorded uses (471).

Is Seren 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
+1,440
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+942
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+263
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.6%
Peak was 2016 (62)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,792
2016

Spellings of Seren

Seren is not the most common spelling — Helen is, with 38.1% against Seren's 0.04%.

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 Seren is used

Across 1910–2025, Seren was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 299,946 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —
  7. 7Washington1 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. Seren has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Seren around the world

Where Seren 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
    1996–2025
    #238
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2002–2025
    #429
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2006–2025
    #397
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    1991–2020
    #5,256
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1990–2013
    #536
    in 2013

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

Seren by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,207
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 942
Best rank ever
#2,792
2016
Peak year
2016
62 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,026
Count in 2025
50

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,566
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,143
Best rank ever
#8,863
2024
Peak year
2024
9 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
55
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Seren

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

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Sibling names for Seren

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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