Serafina

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Seraphina

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

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

rarermore common
  • PEPeru≈1 in 9.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 9.5K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 16K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
132 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 8.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SerafinaLatin(measured from records)
ΣεραφίναGreek(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)

a female given name, equivalent to English Seraphina

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Serafina 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 Serafina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy—≈4,000 est.≈1 in 16K4Serafina82
PE Peru—≈3,500 est.≈1 in 9.2K—Serafina29
US United States—3,0731 in 108K3.1KSerafina132
ES Spain—2,9021 in 17K3.2KSerafina58
AR Argentina#934≈2,600 est.≈1 in 17K16Serafina37
PY Paraguay#679≈760 est.≈1 in 9.5K—Serafina13
FI Finland—6361 in 8.8K1.1K—3
UY Uruguay#527911 in 37K91Serafina5

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Serafina is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish given name3 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Polish, Czech

    Also written Serafína

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Serafína, Sérafina, Serafin-A

  • Croatian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Bulgaria, Italy, Serbia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Серафина

46 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)

Serafina is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Referido a los ángeles más puros que rodean a Dios

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Polish, Serafina; Seraphine

    as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)

  • Fiammeggiante

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

16001700180019002000Serafina of God, b. 1621Serafina Astafieva, b. 1876Serafina Dávalos, b. 1877Serafina di Leo, b. 1912Penny Petrone, b. 1925Serafina Bueti, b. 1942Lidia Argondizzo, b. 1960Serafina Cuomo, b. 1966Serafina Steer, b. 1982

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 67 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Serafina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—3.2K#625
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.1K#5,544
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.9K#1,344
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1.1K#755
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—636—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025245—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—91—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—91—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#27,840
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202012#5,544
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)20244#2,135
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)20144—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 are other forms of the name Serafina?
In the etymology graph, Sera, Serafima and Seraphina are forms of the same name in other languages; Fina is a recorded short or pet form.
What does the name Serafina mean, and where does it come from?
a female given name, equivalent to English Seraphina Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Serafina have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Serafina in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled serafina.
Where is Serafina most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Serafina is densest in Finland — about 1 in 8.8 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
Is Serafina a male or female name?
Serafina 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.
How common is the name Serafina?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,073 people named Serafina in 2020, about 1 in 108 thousand residents.
How common is Serafina compared with other names?
In Uruguay, Serafina is the 527th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.

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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, “Serafina” — the 527th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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