girls:
206 births since 1996
#5510 (4th percentile)
boys:
97 births since 1923
#4489 (2nd percentile)
overall:
303 births since 1923
#7436 (4th percentile)
The name Seraphim is the #7,436 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 303 recorded births since 1923. This represents the 3.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,510 (3.6% percentile) for all time with 206 births since 1996. For boys, it ranks #4,489 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 97 births since 1923.
Seraphim first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1923 (1923 for boys and 1996 for girls). Birth data for Seraphim is available in 26 out of the 101 years between 1923 and 2023 (22 years for girls and 13 years for boys). 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.
The name Seraphim has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (68.0% of all recorded births). In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Seraphim were girls. Interestingly, until around 1996, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1923 to 1995), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (69.1% girls from 1996 to 2023).
For girls, Seraphim reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #948) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Seraphim reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #918) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Seraphim ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 93.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Seraphim".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Seraphim. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.1% confident that Seraphim is pronounced as SEH-ruh-fihm, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SEH-ruh-FIHM, at 14.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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