Given name & surname
Serapio
Serapio is a masculine given name. It is used in Spanish.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Serapio 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 1905. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Serapio through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 291
- 291 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1925
- 14 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 boys is 5 in 2006. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 1925. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 594 as a first name in 2020; 259 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.
Serapio’s family of names
In Italian usage, Serapio has a feminine form in SERAPIA.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Serapio
- Serapio CalderónPresident of Peru (1843-1922)
- Serapion of AlgiersIrish saint1179–1240
- Serapio Bwemi MagamboUgandan priest1928–1995
- Serapio Reyes OrtizBolivian politician (1822-1900)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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