Seren
- #3,167 for girls in 2025, 50 births
- #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
- Given to girls 94.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2016 · 62 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,026since 1981
Seren over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,167 | 50 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #4,560 | 30 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #4,565 | 30 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #4,793 | 28 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #3,614 | 42 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,078 | 34 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #5,163 | 25 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,853 | 38 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,697 | 41 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,761 | 62 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,429 | 46 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,326 | 48 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,218 | 50 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,213 | 51 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #2,989 | 57 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,123 | 53 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,460 | 47 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,645 | 44 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,808 | 30 | — | |
| 2006 | #5,233 | 26 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,437 | 23 | — | |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #5,419 | 22 | — | |
| 2002 | #5,254 | 22 | — | |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 | — | |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 | — | |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | — | |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | — | |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | — | |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | — | |
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| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | — | |
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| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | — | |
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| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | — | |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | — | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Seren! It came in at #10,411, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1984–1988, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Seren is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#2,075 · 1 in 15,666
- Florida#2,151 · 1 in 17,352
- California#2,767 · 1 in 26,954
- Texas#2,921 · 1 in 26,757
Best ever in a state: #959 in Arizona, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #2,075 | 5 | 1 in 15,666 |
| Florida | #2,151 | 5 | 1 in 17,352 |
| California | #2,767 | 6 | 1 in 26,954 |
| Texas | #2,921 | 6 | 1 in 26,757 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Seren
- 1,393 spots since 2024 (#4,560 → #3,167)
- 911 spots since 2020 (#4,078 → #3,167)
- 262 spots since 2015 (#3,429 → #3,167)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 2016 at #2,761 (62 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,581 girls born in 2016 were named Seren (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,145 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 45.9% of all girls named Seren (471) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 24 | #9,015 (1983) | #9,586 |
| 1990s | 62 | #6,484 (1999) | #10,512 |
| 2000s | 255 | #3,460 (2009) | #5,658 |
| 2010s | 471 | #2,761 (2016) | #3,477 |
| 2020s | 214 | #3,167 (2025) | #4,130 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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