Seraphina

What Seraphina means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Seraphina yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,215 in 2015, #599 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Seraphina?

US: Rising: up from #1215 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1362 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 489 girls got the name (#599 that year). First in the US records in 1916.

How common

• About 1 in 3,287 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 4,152 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WV (1.18 per 1,000 girls), NM (1.07 per 1,000 girls), ID (0.98 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Seraphina is #599 in the US and #634 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Seraphina were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Serafina245 US · 24 E&W
• Saraphina18 US
• Serephina6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Seraphina

Girls

• Stella#52“star”^*
• Vivienne#172Variant of Vivian, possibly meaning “alive”^*
• Lucille#237Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 7,989 babies; 1,314 in 2025
• Lucy#24“light”^*
• Valentina#35Same root as Valentine, meaning “strong, healthy”^*
• Juliet#274Editor’s note Down from #240 in 2015 to #274 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Azariah#472“Yah Has Helped”^*
• Bennett#40Form of Benedict, meaning “blessed, well spoken of”^*
• Roman#42Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #42 in 2025
• Cassius#582Editor’s note Up from #644 in 2015 to #582 in 2025 in the US
• Titus#358“honorable”^*
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Seraphina’s. Rank is US 2025.