Serenity

What Serenity means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #129 vs #997 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Serenity?

US: Falling: down from #71 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #891 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2013, when 4,475 girls got the name (#52 that year). First in the US records in 1972.

How common

• About 1 in 728 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 7,449 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 DE (5.76 per 1,000 girls), MS (4.94 per 1,000 girls), AK (4.23 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Serenity is #129 in the US and #997 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 Serenity were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Cerenity31 US
• Sereniti26 US
• Sarenity14 US
• Serinity12 US
• Zerenity9 US
• Serenitee8 US
• Syrenity8 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 Serenity

Girls

• Lily#18Diminutive of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Journey#411Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #411 vs #3,333 in 2025
• Audrey#86“noble + strength”^*
• Promise#823Editor’s note 330 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales
• Sienna#94Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #229 in 2015, #94 in 2025
• Sky#948From the word “sky”^*

For a brother

• Deacon#561Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1971, with 15 babies
• Rowan#59“little red one”^*
• Alden#598“old + friend”^*
• Tate#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #420 in 2015, #193 in 2025
• Prince#447Editor’s note Down from #386 in 2015 to #447 in 2025 in the US
• Ocean#717“sea”^*

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