Serena

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Serena is a given name, most frequently recorded in Italy. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Obsolete form of serene (“fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset”, noun).

rarermore common
  • ITItaly1 in 1.2K◐
  • SGSingapore1 in 2.2K
  • CACanada1 in 7.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈51K ●

across 9 countries

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
415 ●

263K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 7.7K ◐

Albania

Spellings & scripts●

SerenaLatin · English●227K records
סרנהHebrew · Hebrew●1.9K records
СеренаCyrillic · Russian●526 records
ซีรีนThai · Thai●300 records
ᲡერენაGeorgian · Georgian●8 records
ΣερεναGreek · Greek●0 records
ሰረናEthiopic · Amharic●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled סרנה in AR Argentina, IL Israel, LB Lebanon and 1 more, Серена in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, Serene in SG Singapore and ซีรีน in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Obsolete form of serene (“fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset”, noun).

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Serena is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy#21542,0669.8K rec.—421Serena139
US United States—38,120192K rec.1 in 8.7K38KSerena415
GB United Kingdom#89715,58713K rec.—listedSerena176
AU Australia#77613,81113K rec.—3Serena172
CA Canada#73711,6915.6K rec.—12Serena158
FR France—6,335△12 rec.1 in 11K6.3K—6
SG Singapore#1424,9244.6K rec.——Serene107
BR Brazil—4,115△14 rec.1 in 51K4.1KSerena3
DE Germany—2,8232.7K rec.—1Serena92
MY Malaysia—2,5682.3K rec.——Serena59
ES Spain—1,0681.1K rec.1 in 47K12KSerena61
BE Belgium—986376 rec.—18Serena38

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English227K44%
  • Spanish65K13%
  • French42K8%
  • Italian42K8%
  • German38K7%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English227,20744%
Spanish64,72513%
French42,2248%
Italian41,5318%
German37,8307%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Serena is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name123K records spelled Serena17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, United States, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sereña, Séréna, Sëręnä, S̲̅e̲̅r̲̅e̲̅n̲̅a̲̅, Sérena

  • Italian given name51K records spelled Serena11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Serėna, Sërënà, Serèna, Sërënã, Sèrèna

  • a separate given name8.6K records spelled Serena3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Séréna, Sérèna

  • Indonesian given name2.5K records spelled Serena4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Italy, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Sèrèna, Sêrenã

  • Finnish given name2.4K records spelled Serena4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Italy, Hungary

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Śeŕenä

60 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Serena is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, feminine singular of sereno

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • calm

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Italian, oriundo de vilarejos chamados Serena; nome do lat. serena

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In English, Latin: calm, serene

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05001K1.5K2K1900195020001.5K · 2000

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Serena in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188013
188113
188214
188310
18849
188513
188615
188716
188814
188924
189015
189115
189220
189313
189413
189518
189628
189722
189823
189917
190031
190118
190226
190317
190414
190520
190621
190722
190825
190924
191031
191117
191231
191324
191435
191538
191643
191757
191848
191935
192051
192146
192241
192337
192435
192550
192630
192741
192847
192928
193027
193133
193227
193334
193428
193533
193628
193736
193859
193949
194056
194137
194259
194347
194467
194559
194670
194766
194866
194968
195070
195184
195284
195379
195485
1955125
195698
1957116
1958151
1959163
1960115
1961142
1962169
1963180
1964203
1965181
1966200
1967261
1968441
1969676
1970639
1971587
1972450
1973404
1974387
1975444
1976453
1977507
1978471
1979502
1980630
1981535
1982594
1983596
1984577
1985566
1986453
1987448
1988416
1989448
1990477
1991498
1992500
1993546
1994620
1995831
1996925
19971,206
19981,401
19991,440
20001,504
20011,296
20021,306
20031,277
20041,063
2005869
2006810
2007814
2008882
2009813
2010687
2011682
2012716
2013744
2014704
2015782
2016720
2017768
2018780
2019748
2020725
2021810
2022814
2023821
2024942
2025942

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19501960197019801990Serena Grandi, b. 1958Serena Scott Thomas, b. 1961Serena Gordon, b. 1963Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor, b. 1976Serena Autieri, b. 1976Serena Williams, b. 1981Serena Ryder, b. 1982Serena Rossi, b. 1985Serena Deeb, b. 1986Serena Ortolani, b. 1987

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 99 sources across 54 countries.

Official registers attesting Serena
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202038K#1,084
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20224.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—4.1K#3,136
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20243K#303
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20201.9K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.5K#3,064
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.5K#3,062
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.2K#8,379
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.1K#2,736
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020946#27,055
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025942—
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—919#1,484

Reference works 5

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 999 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Serena?
We estimate roughly 51 thousand people bear Serena (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Serena have the most bearers?
Serena is most frequently recorded in Italy, where it is most often spelled serena.
How common is Serena compared with other names?
In Italy, Serena is the 215th most common given name of 102,519 given names recorded there.
Is Serena a male or female name?
Serena is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Serena mean?
Recorded meaning: Obsolete form of serene (“fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset”, noun).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Serena” — the 215th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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