Serayah
Feminine · “the Lord is prince”
Serayah is 'the Lord is prince' in Hebrew — sar and Yah — and Seraiah was the last chief priest before the exile.
How old is the name Serayah?
Serayah first appears in US birth records in 2006 — 19 years ago. The typical Serayah is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Serayah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Serayah most popular?
Serayah peaked in 2025, reaching #2485 nationally. Today it ranks #2485, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From sar Yah to Serayah
The story of Serayah
Seraiah was the chief priest when Nebuchadnezzar took Jerusalem in 587 and was executed at Riblah; the line of priests descends through his son. Another Seraiah carried Jeremiah's scroll to Babylon and threw it in the Euphrates. The name appears in American records for both sexes in current use.
Meaning
the Lord is prince
From the Hebrew Serayah — sar, 'prince' or 'ruler', and Yah, the divine name. Sar also gives Sarah, 'princess', and Israel's sarah, 'to contend'. 2 Kings names Seraiah as chief priest when Jerusalem fell. The Hebrew is documented.
How the name formed
- sar Yah
- Serayah
Related forms: שריה · Seraiah
Pronouncing Serayah
seh-RY-uh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Hebrew stresses the last, se-ra-YAH.
Nicknames for Serayah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2006
- Most girls named
- 202571 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2485reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +26.8%71 in 2025, from 56
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Serayah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- שריה in Hebrew — transliteration
- Seraiah in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, California.
Serayahs among us
people named Serayah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 22,638 born in 2025 was named Serayah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Serayah
- #2485
- Serayah on the 2025 chart
- #840
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Serayah went to 71 girls in 2025, but Seraiah and Seraya are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 120, which makes it the 840th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,645 places above the chart.
- Serayah71
- Seraiah26
- Seraya23
About 1 girl in 13,394 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 22,638 for Serayah itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Keelie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Serayah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Keelie climbed just as high around 2007, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Keelie's path sketches the road Serayah is walking now.
Serayah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Serayah is headed
Serayah should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Serayah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Serayah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That one Seraiah threw Jeremiah's scroll into the Euphrates is a first-rate scene.
- Sera and Raya are two short forms, both with real use.
- The Lord-is-prince meaning is transparent and strong.
- Seraiah is the standard biblical spelling.
- The biblical bearer was executed at the fall of Jerusalem.
- It is easily confused with Seraphina.
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Feminine · #2485 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Serayahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Serayah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Serayah?
- Serayah is the most-used spelling in US records — 71 of the 120 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Seraiah and Seraya.
- How popular is the name Serayah in 2025?
- Serayah ranks #2485 among US girl names in 2025, with 71 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Serayah?
- About 1 in every 22,638 US girls born in 2025 was named Serayah — 71 in all.
- Will my child share the name Serayah with classmates?
- Serayah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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