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Serene

#1,609 in 2025Girls' name

Serene, through Serena

Serene has been given to 3,226 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #1,609 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 130 recorded.

Babies named Serene, 2025

1 in 25,500

Serene over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Serene: meaning, origin, and history

Serene, through Serena

English

What Serene means

Serene belongs to the name family reached through Serene → Serena. Its meaning is “serene”.

Origin, language, and formation

Serene is used in English. Its origins include English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Serena.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,226 girls were recorded with the name Serene between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 130 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,609 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,061 in 2020 to #1,609 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,551 in 2015 to #1,609 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 Serene?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 25,500
130 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 12,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,609
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
17,677 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Serene 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 17,677 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Serene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Serenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Serene was born before 2008 — so the typical Serene is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
24.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,088
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 24.8% of all recorded uses (800).

Is Serene 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
+97
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+452
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+942
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (130)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,609
2025

Spellings of Serene

Serene is not the most common spelling — Irene is, with 53.9% against Serene's 0.49%.

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 Serene is used

Across 2016–2025, Serene was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 15,122 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).

214 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 7,143
  2. 2California1 in 9,091
  3. 3New York1 in 12,500
  4. 4Florida1 in 20,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 20,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 20,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 20,000
  8. 8Maryland1 in 33,333

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.

Serene around the world

Where Serene 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
    #2,006
    in 2025
  • France
    2002–2007
    #4,522
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,286
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1959–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Notable people named Serene

People whose public names include Serene, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Serene by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,609
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 452
Best rank ever
#1,609
2025
Peak year
2025
130 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,226
Count in 2025
130

Names similar to Serene

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

SerinaAileneSerafinaEileneSereenCeleneSerenSeriahJasleneJaileneSerraSerahSeraRayleneSeritaAlleneRaeleneSeleneKayleneSeraphinaSerinitySerayahMyleneJhene

Names with a curve like Serene

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Serene, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ChavaJosephinaNechamaRochelAzaliaAdoraRaineyLovelyBrachaDaylaYaelFaigy

Sibling names for Serene

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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