Serena

Where Serena comes from

From the name of an early Christian saint, Latin serena (“serene”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Serena
  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #466 among girls — 13 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1976
    Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor born
    American physician, engineer, and NASA astronaut
  3. 1981
    Serena Williams born
    American tennis player
  4. 2000
    Peak, #209
    1,504 babies named Serena — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #447.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Serena Williams · American tennis player, born 1981
  • Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor · American physician, engineer, and NASA astronaut, born 1976
  • Serena Grandi · Italian actress, born 1958
  • Serena Scott Thomas · British actress, born 1961
  • Serena Rossi · Italian actress, singer and television presenter, born 1985

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.