Seraphina
Pronounced S ER0 AA0 F IY1 N AH0 (ARPABET)
- 4 syllables
- Peaked 2024
- 124 years in use
- 1 spelling
How popular is Seraphina?
Seraphina is a girls' name, and first appears in 1901. It has been given to 7,065 children — the 1,713th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: roughly twice as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2024, when 552 children were given it.
Serafina is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Seraphina and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Serafina
Characteristics
- 4 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- S ER0 AA0 F IY1 N AH0
- Stress pattern:
- 0010
- Syllables:
- 4
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Seraphina
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Seraphina
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Seraphina?
- Seraphina ranks 1,713th among girls' names in US records, with 7,065 births since 1901. Over the past decade it accounts for 3,871.
- Is Seraphina a unisex name?
- No. Seraphina is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Seraphina most popular?
- 2024, when 552 children were given the name. It has been in use for 124 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Seraphina spelled?
- Serafina. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.