# Serenity (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/serenity/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 77,625 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 75 / 77,550 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 803, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3,872 | 66 |
| 2012 | 4,248 | 58 |
| 2013 | 4,475 | 52 |
| 2014 | 4,356 | 58 |
| 2015 | 4,006 | 71 |
| 2016 | 3,871 | 70 |
| 2017 | 3,596 | 78 |
| 2018 | 3,570 | 75 |
| 2019 | 3,441 | 77 |
| 2020 | 3,444 | 69 |
| 2021 | 3,086 | 84 |
| 2022 | 2,811 | 94 |
| 2023 | 2,574 | 102 |
| 2024 | 2,359 | 117 |
| 2025 | 2,209 | 129 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | 12,192 |
| 2004 | 9 | 8,056 |
| 2006 | 5 | 13,675 |
| 2008 | 6 | 12,308 |
| 2010 | 6 | 11,951 |
| 2011 | 8 | 9,457 |
| 2012 | 7 | 10,574 |
| 2013 | 6 | 11,920 |
| 2014 | 7 | 10,542 |
| 2016 | 5 | 13,867 |
| 2017 | 6 | 11,987 |
| 2019 | 5 | 13,809 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 43 | 841 |
| 2012 | 50 | 779 |
| 2013 | 48 | 802 |
| 2014 | 41 | 907 |
| 2015 | 41 | 891 |
| 2016 | 37 | 975 |
| 2017 | 45 | 855 |
| 2018 | 42 | 886 |
| 2019 | 38 | 936 |
| 2020 | 27 | 1,200 |
| 2021 | 43 | 828 |
| 2022 | 42 | 839 |
| 2023 | 32 | 1,056 |
| 2024 | 38 | 934 |
| 2025 | 34 | 997 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.