Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Serafima isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Serafima through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 18
- 0 boys · 18 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 275 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Serafima’s family of names
Serafima has an affectionate form in Sima. Serafima shares a linguistic root with Seraphina. In English usage, Serafima has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Серафима.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Serafima
- Serafima BirmanRussian actor and theatre director (1890-1976)
- Serafima AmosovaDeputy Regimental Commander of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment (1914-1992)
- Serafima Bryusovaworld's first female neurosurgeon1894–1958
- Serafima GopnerSoviet politician (1880-1966)
- Serafima RyanginaRussian artist (1891-1955)
- Serafima KholinaSoviet actress (1923–2021)
- Serafima Sitnik1912–1944
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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