Serenity
#129 for girls in 2025, 2,209 births · Last seen for boys in 2019 at #12,145
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2013 · 4,475 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 14 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 77,550since 1972
Serenity over time
Rank among girls' names. 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #129 | 2,209 | — | |
| 2024 | #117 | 2,359 | — | |
| 2023 | #102 | 2,574 | — | |
| 2022 | #94 | 2,811 | — | |
| 2021 | #84 | 3,086 | — | |
| 2020 | #69 | 3,444 | — | |
| 2019 | #77 | 3,441 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #75 | 3,570 | — | |
| 2017 | #77 | 3,596 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #70 | 3,871 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #71 | 4,006 | — | |
| 2014 | #58 | 4,356 | #9,642 | 7 |
| 2013 | #52 | 4,475 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #58 | 4,248 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | #66 | 3,872 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #82 | 3,486 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #93 | 3,489 | — | |
| 2008 | #111 | 3,123 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #126 | 2,738 | — | |
| 2006 | #134 | 2,601 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #168 | 1,989 | — | |
| 2004 | #191 | 1,786 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #233 | 1,413 | — | |
| 2002 | #289 | 1,074 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #377 | 784 | — | |
| 2000 | #433 | 654 | — | |
| 1999 | #496 | 524 | — | |
| 1998 | #842 | 253 | — | |
| 1997 | #976 | 200 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,186 | 152 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,306 | 127 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,433 | 111 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,679 | 89 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,630 | 93 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,215 | 59 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,011 | 67 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,527 | 45 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,216 | 51 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,780 | 35 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,052 | 52 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,440 | 40 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,515 | 37 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,475 | 37 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,115 | 48 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,734 | 65 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,863 | 58 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,857 | 57 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,487 | 76 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,538 | 70 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,499 | 69 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,357 | 34 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,757 | 26 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,362 | 13 | — | |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Serenity! It came in at #6,558, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Serenity is popular in 1972
No state had 5 or more girls named Serenity in 1972, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Serenity
- 12 spots since 2024 (#117 → #129)
- 60 spots since 2020 (#69 → #129)
- 58 spots since 2015 (#71 → #129)
- Biggest jump: 346 spots in 1999 (#842 → #496)
- Biggest drop: 15 spots in 2021 (#69 → #84)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2013 at #52 (4,475 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 14 yrs · run 2009–2022
- Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1997–2025
- Highest: 1 in 392 girls born in 2013 were named Serenity (0.26%)
- Latest: 1 in 728 girls born in 2025 (0.14%)
- 50.2% of all girls named Serenity (38,921) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 352 | #1,487 (1978) | #2,802 |
| 1980s | 468 | #1,734 (1981) | #2,272 |
| 1990s | 1,675 | #496 (1999) | #1,377 |
| 2000s | 19,651 | #93 (2009) | #216 |
| 2010s | 38,921 | #52 (2013) | #69 |
| 2020s | 16,483 | #69 (2020) | #99 |
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.
Serenity in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 217,321 of them was named Serenity, which outranked 32.2% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,959Zoie8
- #5,959Zona8
- #5,959Zuleika8
- #6,558Serenity7
- #6,558Acacia7
- #6,558Acquanetta7
- #6,558Adel7
- #7,292Adonia6
- #7,292Afua6
- #7,292Aggie6
Tied with 733 names at #6,558; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.