Fun Facts About the Name Seraphina
- More than 4 thousand babies named Seraphina: U.S. records list 4,091 babies given the name Seraphina from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Seraphina Mean?
Seraphina is a feminine name taken from the seraphim, the heavenly beings described in the Hebrew Bible, and its meaning is usually given as "burning one" or "fiery one." The Hebrew word is saraph (שָׂרָף), whose plural seraphim names the six-winged figures in the vision of the prophet Isaiah. The Hebrew root behind saraph is commonly connected with burning, which is why the seraphim are often understood as "burning ones." Some scholars instead link the word to a root meaning "serpent," since the biblical seraphim are described in serpent-like terms, and the exact sense of the original Hebrew is not fully settled. In later Christian tradition the seraphim became the highest order of angels, associated with fire and divine love, and that tradition gave the name its broader symbolic sense of something angelic or ardent. A feminine ending turns the Hebrew plural into a personal name; the parallel masculine forms are Latin Seraphinus and Russian and Greek Seraphim (Serafim).
Seraphina Name History & Origins
The name belongs to Christian Europe rather than to the ancient Hebrew world; it grew out of devotion to the seraphim, the angelic order described in Isaiah. The Hebrew word passed into Greek and Latin as seraphim, and Christian writers used the Latin masculine name Seraphinus and its feminine Seraphina from the Middle Ages onward. The name took root especially in Italy, Spain, and Portugal, where it is usually spelled Serafina with an f, and in Poland as Serafina. One early bearer was Serafina of San Gimignano, a thirteenth-century Italian woman venerated as a saint, who died in 1253. The related masculine name appears in the Orthodox world as Seraphim, borne by the Russian monk Saint Seraphim of Sarov (1759 - 1833). The spelling Seraphina, with ph, follows the transliteration of the Hebrew through Greek and Latin and is the form now most often used in English. French uses Séraphine.
How Popular is the Name Seraphina?
Seraphina recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2025. Its best rank was #600 in 2025.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #600 | 489 | 0.0304% |
| 2024 | #778 | 362 | 0.0224% |
| 2023 | #971 | 266 | 0.0166% |
| 2022 | #1,037 | 247 | 0.0151% |
| 2021 | #1,085 | 231 | 0.0141% |
| 2020 | #1,275 | 176 | 0.0109% |
| 2019 | #1,002 | 258 | 0.0154% |
| 2018 | #1,100 | 225 | 0.0132% |
| 2017 | #1,197 | 204 | 0.0118% |
| 2016 | #1,182 | 212 | 0.0120% |
| 2015 | #1,217 | 204 | 0.0114% |
| 2014 | #1,342 | 175 | 0.0098% |
| 2013 | #1,345 | 174 | 0.0099% |
| 2012 | #1,496 | 151 | 0.0086% |
| 2011 | #1,466 | 153 | 0.0087% |
| 2010 | #1,884 | 108 | 0.0061% |
| 2009 | #2,239 | 88 | 0.0048% |
| 2008 | #3,366 | 50 | 0.0026% |
| 2007 | #4,924 | 30 | 0.0016% |
| 2006 | #4,554 | 32 | 0.0017% |
| 2005 | #4,473 | 31 | 0.0017% |
| 2004 | #4,266 | 33 | 0.0018% |
| 2003 | #6,836 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2002 | #4,480 | 28 | 0.0016% |
| 2001 | #6,578 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2000 | #6,747 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 1999 | #6,784 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1998 | #10,951 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1997 | #8,901 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1996 | #8,021 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1994 | #7,509 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1993 | #15,314 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1992 | #13,035 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1991 | #11,257 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1990 | #14,788 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1988 | #11,481 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1984 | #11,785 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1983 | #7,885 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1981 | #6,710 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1916 | #4,335 | 6 | 0.0006% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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