Sereen
Feminine · “Calm”
Sereen is a phonetic spelling with two possible parents: the English serene, from the Latin for clear and untroubled weather, and the Arabic Sirin, an old name borne by a woman of the first Islamic generation. Its peak is 2023, which is very recent.
How old is the name Sereen?
Sereen first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Sereen is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Sereen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sereen most popular?
Sereen peaked in 2023, reaching #4999 nationally. Today it ranks #5554, 555 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From serenus to Sereen
Our story of Sereen
Two entirely separate streams reach these six letters and the American record cannot separate them. Serena is Latin, was a Roman name, and rose in America through the twentieth century — Serena Williams, from 1999, gave it a very large second life. Sirin is Arabic and Coptic, borne by the sister of Mariya al-Qibtiyya and used across the Arab world since; it arrives in American records with Arab immigration. Sereen sits between them and is spelled the way an English reader would need to arrive at the sound of either. Its 2023 peak is recent enough that the name is still rising, and both communities are contributing to it.
Meaningscholars disagree
Calm, clear, untroubled, if from serene
Latin serenus means clear and cloudless, used of weather and by extension of temperament, and gives English serene and the name Serena — a settled reading for those. Arabic and Coptic Sīrīn is a separate name, borne by a Coptic woman given to the poet Hassan ibn Thabit in the seventh century; its meaning is not established. Sereen matches both in sound and neither in spelling exclusively.
How the name formed
- serenus
- Serene
- Sereen
Related forms: سيرين · Serena · Serene
Pronouncing Sereen
suh-REEN
Two syllables, stress on the second, with a long ee. The spelling delivers this reliably, which is its purpose; Arabic Sirin is closer to see-REEN with a fuller first vowel.
Nicknames for Sereen
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
- 1993
- Most girls named
- 202326 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4999reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- +266.7%22 in 2025, from 6
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.
Sereen in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- سيرين in Arabic — related form
- Serena in Latin — related form
- Serene in English — spelling variant
Sereens among us
people named Sereen are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 73,058 born in 2025 was named Sereen
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Sereen
- #5554
- Sereen on the 2025 chart
- #888
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Sereen went to 22 girls in 2025, but Seren is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 72, which makes it the 888th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,666 places above the chart.
- Seren50
- Sereen22
About 1 girl in 22,323 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 73,058 for Sereen 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 Nirali test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Sereen's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Nirali climbed just as high around 1993, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Nirali's path sketches the road Sereen is walking now.
Sereen 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
Sereen beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Sereen in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The spelling gives the intended sound to an English reader without instruction.
- The English meaning is settled and unusually calm.
- Six letters and two syllables keep it compact.
- Serene, Serena, Sirine and Sereen are four spellings across two traditions.
- The Arabic name's own meaning is not established.
- It is among the newest names in the American record.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sereens are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Sereen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Sereen?
- Sereen is one of 2 recorded spellings. Seren is the more common one — 50 births in 2025 against 22 for Sereen.
- How popular is the name Sereen in 2025?
- Sereen ranks #5554 among US girl names in 2025, with 22 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Sereen?
- About 1 in every 73,058 US girls born in 2025 was named Sereen — 22 in all.
- Will my child share the name Sereen with classmates?
- Sereen will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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