Seri
loc · Malay · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Seri is a name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Malay and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: shine, gleam.
- BNBrunei1 in 47K◐
- ALAlbania1 in 102K
- MUMauritius1 in 115K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈415 ●
- Sources
- 132 ●
- 1 in 102K ◐
across 7 countries
6.1K records
Official registry-verified
Albania
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Şeri in TR Türkiye.
Meaning & origin●
shine, gleam
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 319 | 3K rec. | 1 in 1M | 319 | Seri | 132 |
| AU Australia | 84 | 361 rec. | — | 1 | Seri | 37 |
| GB United Kingdom | 78 | 165 rec. | — | — | Seri | 38 |
| AL Albania | 30 | 0 rec. | 1 in 102K | 30 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 27 | 0 rec. | 1 in 7.8M | 143 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 21 | 0 rec. | 1 in 265K | 41 | — | 2 |
| CA Canada | 20 | 71 rec. | — | 6 | Seri | 12 |
| DE Germany | 17 | 236 rec. | — | — | Seri | 33 |
| SE Sweden | 12△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 850K | 12 | — | 1 |
| TR Türkiye | 9 | 59 rec. | — | — | Şeri | 7 |
| NZ New Zealand | 6 | 3 rec. | — | — | Seri | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 5 | 3 rec. | — | 10 | Seri | 3 |
Roughly 319 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 1M). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Malay285K50%
- Hindi13K2%
- Indonesian1.1K1%
- Vietnamese6891%
- Burmese4361%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Malay | 285,397 | 50% |
| Hindi | 13,149 | 2% |
| Indonesian | 1,116 | 1% |
| Vietnamese | 689 | 1% |
| Burmese | 436 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Seri 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, sobrenome raríssimo; geralmente primeiro elemento de composto, com sentido de senhor
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In cdo, a lofty house, abundant, confused, Be confused, mixed
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In tuw-pro, 1 buttocks 2 coccyx, waist vertebra
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In tuw-pro, decking, covering
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In tut-pro, table, prop
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1949 | 6 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1953 | 10 |
| 1955 | 7 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2006 | 7 |
| 2007 | 11 |
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 10 |
| 2011 | 8 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2013 | 8 |
| 2015 | 8 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2021 | 6 |
| 2022 | 11 |
| 2023 | 8 |
| 2024 | 10 |
| 2025 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 27 years between 1949–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Seri Chintanaserib. 1942THbadminton player
- Mati Serib. 1952ILIsraeli actor
- Sarit Serib. 1961ILIsraeli actress and voice actress
- Barak Serib. 1962ILIsraeli journalist and communications adviser
- Jean Serib. 1991CIIvorian footballer
- Gal Serib. 1991ILIsraeli dub actress
- Seri Ozakib. 2002JPJapanese fencer
- Lester SeriPGPapua New Guinean naturalist
- Marcello SeriITresearcher
- Andrea SeriARAncient Near East Studies scholar
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 43 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 7.8K | #76 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 423 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 319 | #24,850 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 294 | #71,480 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 269 | #72,332 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 169 | #99,214 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 143 | #48,212 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 80 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 66 | #24,850 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 63 | #38,036 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 63 | #37,783 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 55 | #42,022 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 97 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Seri?
- We estimate roughly 415 people bear Seri (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Seri have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 319 people bear Seri in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled seri.
- What does the name Seri mean?
- Recorded meaning: shine, gleam
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Seri”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.