Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Seri 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 1949. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Seri through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 193
- 0 boys · 193 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,882 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,882 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 385 as a first name in 2020; 294 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.
Seri’s family of names
In Indonesian usage, Seri shares an earlier linguistic root with Sri.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Seri
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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