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Serena

As a girl's name, Serena is understood to mean "calm, serene". It has been climbing steadily, peaking most recently in the 2000s. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.

LatinLatin
EtymologyMeaning "calm, serene"
Births by decade
1900s
218
1910s
359
1920s
406
1930s
355
1940s
594
1950s
1,054
1960s
2,567
1970s
4,848
1980s
5,274
1990s
8,443
2000s
10,624
2010s
5,784
Peaked in the 2000s · 40,526 total U.S. births since 1900