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Serge

#8,790 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly servant, through Sergio

Serge has been given to 1,628 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #8,790 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1972, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Serge, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Serge: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly servant, through Sergio

English

What Serge means

Serge belongs to the name family reached through Serge → Sergio → Sergio → Sergius. Its meaning is “servant”.

Origin, language, and formation

Serge is used in Cebuano and French. Its origins include English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sergio and Sergius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Serge is pronounced /sɛʁʒ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,628 boys were recorded with the name Serge between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 1972; its best national rank was #1,361 in 1972.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,971 in 2020 to #8,790 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,851 in 2015 to #8,790 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.

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How common is Serge?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,790
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Serge 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 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Serge. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Serges were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Serge was born before 1975 — so the typical Serge is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
14.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,347
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 14.9% of all recorded uses (243).

Is Serge 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
−573
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,819
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,061
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
23.1%
Peak was 1972 (39)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,361
1972

Spellings of Serge

Serge is not the most common spelling — George is, with 83.6% against Serge's 0.09%.

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 Serge is used

Across 1910–2025, Serge was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 88,360 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Serge has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Serge around the world

Where Serge 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
    1996–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    1900–2025
    #3,094
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #2,283
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1952–2010
    #754
    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.

Serge by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,790
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,819
Best rank ever
#1,361
1972
Peak year
1972
39 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,628
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Serge

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

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Sibling names for Serge

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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