Serene

given name · English · Latin script

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

Serene is a given name, most frequently recorded in Italy. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Calm, peaceful, unruffled.

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

Locally spelled Serena in US United States, IT Italy, GB United Kingdom and 16 more, סרנה in AR Argentina, IL Israel, LB Lebanon and 1 more, Серена in UA Ukraine, RU Russia 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●

Calm, peaceful, unruffled.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Serene 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●

  • English19K68%
  • Spanish1.2K4%
  • Chinese8593%
  • French6922%
  • Malay5982%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English18,92468%
Spanish1,1694%
Chinese8593%
French6922%
Malay5982%

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◐

Serene is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name2.1K records spelled Serene9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Singapore

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Serenè, Seréne, Seréné, Sérène, Serené

  • French given name1.3K records spelled Serene7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Singapore, Canada

    Also written Sérène, Serène, Séréné, Séréne, Sërené

  • a separate given name547 records spelled Serene3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Singapore

    Also written Serène, Sérène

46 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●

Serene 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 English, French: calm, tranquil

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  • In English, serene; calm, peaceful

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  • In Akan, adv, expressing the hissing sound of a fluid spurted through the teeth or a small orifice: watow ntasu s. afa ncgyaw mu; owo puw n6 b5re tow gu se s

    as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)

  • In fj, Sydney (the capital of New South Wales, Australia)

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

  • In Swedish, definite natural masculine singular of seren

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

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●

050100150192019401960198020002020

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Serene in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1914–2025
Yearrecords
19145
19157
19169
19186
19205
19217
19226
19235
19268
19278
19286
19305
19315
19325
19367
19407
19426
19438
19449
19466
19498
19506
19527
19537
19558
19569
19578
195810
195910
19609
19617
196210
196312
196410
19657
196614
196710
19688
196919
197013
197121
197221
197314
197425
197523
197616
197730
197826
197927
198026
198130
198228
198332
198421
198527
198618
198717
198818
198926
199022
199131
199221
199322
199436
199531
199641
199753
199847
199951
200046
200163
200254
200359
200457
200566
200658
200773
200880
200985
201084
201177
201294
201370
201478
201571
201678
201792
201875
201981
202090
2021120
202280
2023122
2024120
2025130

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 95 years between 1914–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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 39 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Serene
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.4K#6,507
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000297#62,961
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010275#71,042
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020238#84,785
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025130—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—115#57,034
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—59#12,190
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202257—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—53#60,880
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—42#10,429
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—35#13,011
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—26#16,789

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 222 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Serene?
We estimate roughly 51 thousand people bear Serene (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Serene have the most bearers?
Serene is most frequently recorded in Italy, where it is most often spelled serena.
How common is Serene compared with other names?
In Italy, Serene is the 215th most common given name of 102,519 given names recorded there.
Is Serene a male or female name?
Serene 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 Serene mean?
Recorded meaning: Calm, peaceful, unruffled.
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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, “Serene” — the 215th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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