girls:
72.8k births since 1972
#460 (92nd percentile)
boys:
75 births since 2002
#4511 (2nd percentile)
overall:
72.9k births since 1972
#850 (89th percentile)
The name Serenity is the #850 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 72,919 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 89.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #460 (92.0% percentile) for all time with 72,844 births since 1972. For boys, it ranks #4,511 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 75 births since 2002.
Serenity first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for girls and 2002 for boys).
The name Serenity has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Serenity reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 94.5% percentile (ranked #52) with 2,318 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 2,318 births per million (ranked 94.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Serenity ranks #102 for girls (89.3% percentile) with 1,457 births per million, which is 62.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Serenity reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #843) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Serenity".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Serenity. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.1% confident that Serenity is pronounced as ser-EH-nuh-tee, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ser-EH-nih-tee, at 23.7% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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