Given name & surname · also French
Seraphin
Seraphin is a surname from French, ultimately from Latin.
Original FrenchSéraphin
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Seraphin comes from French, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From French Séraphin, from German Seraphin, from Serafin, from Latin Seraphīnus.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Seraphin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 31
- 26 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1919
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,576 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,576 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1919. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 188 as a first name in 2020; 931 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Seraphin’s family of names
In English usage, Seraphin as a surname was borrowed from the French form Séraphin.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Seraphin
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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