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Serana

Gender
Girl
Say it
seh-RAH-nuh
Origin
Latin
US rank, 2025
#8,360 for girls

Serana is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “calm, serene”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).

What does Serana mean?

Latin: spelling of Serena

“calm, serene”

A spelling of Serena, from Latin serenus 'calm, clear'; Serana is also a character in the video game Skyrim.

Is Serana a girl's or a boy's name?

Serana is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Serana in the US?

Rank in 2025
8,360th among girls
Babies in 2025
12 about 1 in 130,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady down 5% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Serana, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,663rd. Its busiest year was 2020, with 21 girls. It first appears in the records in 2014.

Half of all the girls named Serana in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

2014Busiest: 21 in 20202025
Serana in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202512#8,360
202418#6,391
202312#8,481
20228#11,225
202114#7,625
202021#5,663
201910#9,730
201813#8,142
201711#9,337
201610#10,109
20156#14,477
20148#11,925

Names like Serana

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Serana

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Serana: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/serana, updated 20 October 2026.