Girl · Latin, through English
Serenity
Say it: suh-REN-ih-tee
Meaning
From the English word serenity, from Latin serenus 'clear, calm'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A virtue-style word name that spread in the US from the late 1990s.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 64,313 babies given this name since 1972
- At its height in 2013, about 1 in 393 girls
- 3,366 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Serenitee
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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