girl's name

Serah

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 5
  • Popularity Rare
  • Births on record 1,215

Ireland

#525

2025 births

Serah is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 16 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

  • Peaked in 2018, when 41 babies were given the name.
  • Its usage has held steady over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 207,211 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1963.

Serah over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1960s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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'60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Serah by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1960s 5
1970s 20
1980s 91
1990s 133
2000s 168
2010s 298
2020s (to 2025) 99

How popular is Serah?

In 2025, Serah was given to 16 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Where Serah is used

Ireland #525 7 in 2025
Canada #1,587 15 in 2024
England & Wales #2,544 11 in 2025
France #6,711 5 in 2025
United States #7,022 16 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Serah is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Sérah Sérah is a rare spelling of Serah, written with an acute accent and recorded about 35 times, mostly in France. 35

Names that peaked alongside Serah

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Serah also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Serah over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Serah

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Serah — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Serah

How popular is the name Serah?

In 2025, Serah was given to 16 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Is Serah a girl's or a boy's name?

Serah is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Serah most popular?

Serah peaked in 2018, when 41 babies were given the name. Its usage has held steady over the past decade.

Is Serah a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Serah currently ranks #525 in the United States. Its usage has held steady over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.