Sér
surname · Latin script
Sér is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 46K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 840K
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- 1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
226 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ser in US United States and Sęr in DZ Algeria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)do lat. senior, mais velho; elemento de composição e título de respeito medieval
Cited for this meaning 3
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sér counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 226 | 1 in 1.5M | 282 | Ser | 147 |
| IN India | 108 | 1 in 12M | 108 | — | 18 |
| HR Croatia | 91 | 1 in 46K | 91 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 84 | 1 in 2.5M | 84 | — | 1 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Sęr | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | 4 |
| CZ Czechia | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | — |
226 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Sér is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Icelandic, dative of sig (reflexive pronoun)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, dative of sik
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Sér have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 226 people named Sér, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ser.
- Where is Sér most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sér is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 46 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sér?
- In the United States, the national register counted 226 people named Sér in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sér?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A9rThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sér”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.