Serena

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: Obsolete form of serene (“fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset”, noun)

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/səˈɹinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Serena is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 867(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 7.2K
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 7.8K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈130,000 people, est.

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
466 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 867 (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SerenaLatin(measured from records)
סרנהHebrew(measured from records)
СеренаCyrillic(measured from records)
ሰረናEthiopic(measured from records)
ΣερέναGreek(measured from records)
სერენაGeorgian(measured from records)

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)

Obsolete form of serene (“fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset”, noun).

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

How Serena is read(measured from records)

Serena is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English58%

    Obsolete form of serene (“fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset”, noun).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Latin: calm, serene

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • Italian12%

    feminine singular of sereno

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    oriundo de vilarejos chamados Serena; nome do lat. serena

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • Spanish11%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Serena in Spanish.

  • German7.4%

    weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • French5.6%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Serena in French.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Serena 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.

Where Serena is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈130,000 est.≈1 in 11K—Serena44
IT Italy#762≈72,000 est.≈1 in 867421Serena133
US United States—38,1701 in 8.7K38KSerena466
GB United Kingdom#854≈6,000 est.≈1 in 11K98Serena227
BR Brazil—4,1151 in 51K4.1K—3
AU Australia#786≈3,500 est.≈1 in 7.2K1Serena184
SG Singapore#576≈800 est.≈1 in 7.8K—Serena94
AL Albania—4001 in 7.7K400—1

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Serena is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Mexico, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sereña, Séréna, Šêręñä, Sëręnä, S̲̅e̲̅r̲̅e̲̅n̲̅a̲̅

  • Italian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Serenã, Sèrènà, Serèna, Serėna, Sërënã

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Sérèna, Séréna

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, United States, Italy

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Sêrenã, Sèrèna

  • Hungarian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Hungary, Italy, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Śeŕenä

60 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Serena is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • calm

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19501960197019801990Serena Grandi, b. 1958Serena Scott Thomas, b. 1961Serena Gordon, b. 1963Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor, b. 1976Serena Autieri, b. 1976Serena Williams, b. 1981Serena Ryder, b. 1982Serena Rossi, b. 1985Serena Deeb, b. 1986Serena Ortolani, b. 1987

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Serena,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 106 sources across 55 countries.

Official registers attesting Serena
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202038K#1,084
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20224.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—4.1K#3,136
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20201.9K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.2K#8,379
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025942—
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)2024421#78
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—400#1,113
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202050#1,084
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—25#3,136

Reference works 8

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Serena mean, and where does it come from?
Obsolete form of serene (“fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset”, noun). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Serena a male or female name?
Serena is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Serena?
In the etymology graph, Sarina, Serina and Serene are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Serena?
In the United States, the national register counted 38,170 people named Serena in 2020, about 1 in 8.7 thousand residents.
How common is Serena compared with other names?
In Singapore, Serena is the 576th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
How do you pronounce Serena?
A machine transcription gives /səˈɹinə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Serena have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 128 thousand people named Serena in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled serena.

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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, “Serena” — the 576th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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