Meaning and history
From a Latin name derived from serenus, meaning “clear, tranquil, serene,” Séréna was borne by an obscure early saint and later appeared in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1590); a notable modern bearer is tennis player Serena Williams (born 1981).
20062006: 810 births, rank #396
2007: 814 births, rank #403
2008: 882 births, rank #374
2009: 813 births, rank #391
2010: 687 births, rank #447
20112011: 682 births, rank #448
2012: 716 births, rank #436
2013: 744 births, rank #409
2014: 704 births, rank #456
2015: 782 births, rank #410
20162016: 720 births, rank #448
2017: 768 births, rank #413
2018: 780 births, rank #392
2019: 748 births, rank #424
2020: 725 births, rank #421
20212021: 810 births, rank #386
2022: 814 births, rank #386
2023: 821 births, rank #375
2024: 942 births, rank #331
20252025: 942 births, rank #325
Serena rose from #331 to #325 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2000, with 1,504 births.