boys:
1.7k births since 1915
#2977 (35th percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1915
#6011 (22nd percentile)
The name Serafin is the #6,011 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,740 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 22.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 22.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,977 (35.0% percentile) for all time with 1,740 births since 1915.
Serafin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (first recorded for boys in 1915). Birth data for Serafin is available in 108 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Serafin reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 3.6% percentile (ranked #741) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1921, with 17 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Serafin ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 45.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Serafin".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Serafin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.8% confident that Serafin is pronounced as SEH-ruh-fihn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SEH-ruh-feen, at 13.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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