Serena is a Late Roman name that was derived from Latin ‘serenus’ meaning ‘clear, tranquil’.
Serena is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Serena isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Serena ranks 393. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 5 were named Serena. In the entire USA, approximately 39,389 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Serena. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Serena is a Late Roman name that was derived from Latin ‘serenus’ meaning ‘clear, tranquil’.
Although used since... the 19th century, it was popularised during the 1990s by tennis player Serena Williams.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Serena annualy. This means that there have been girls named Serena who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Serena have consistently been special. Since 2000, however, the name has experienced a certain popularity: in 2000 it holds its present record at #198 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Serena was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Serena has never been ranked higher than #198. In 2022, she rivaled the 354 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 809 girls named Serena were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Serena were born, there have been 500 newborns who were given this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Serena is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Serena and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Serena, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Serena sounds like this:
