Serafina
From the Latin Seraphinus, the name of the seraphim, the burning ones: Serafina keeps that heat, the fiery one. Fewer than 300 Polish women use it, so most people here have never met one, and the few girls given it each year keep it just alight.
Serafina Pronunciation
Serafina is pronounced se-rah-FEE-nah (/sɛraˈfina/).
What Serafina means
Where Serafina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Serafina reaches back to the Latin Seraphinus, the name of the seraphim, the highest order of angels. The seraphim were named as burning ones, and Serafina holds that reading. The old sense is fire. In English the name means the fiery, burning one, and that heat sits close to the surface.
Italy took to it early. Saint Serafina of San Gimignano, remembered on the twelfth of March, kept the name in Tuscan mouths long before it traveled north. The Italian ear heard it as soft and familiar, and it settled there as a saint's name.
Polish records hold a few faces of it. The variant Serafyma appears here and there, and the masculine Serafin stands beside it in the same parish book. Read a class register in Kraków today and Serafina still turns up, spelled plainly. The Polish gloss keeps the flame: płomienna, ognista.
When Serafina celebrates name day
Serafina appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 29 July.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Serafina
1 in 89106 women in Poland is named Serafina. 253 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1931 among female names.
Serafina's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1356 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2022.
Serafina as a middle name
Serafina is a first name for 253 women in Poland and a middle name for another 217, a 54/46 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 459th, between Sylvia (218) and Anika (216).
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#457 Rebeka219
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#458 Sylvia218
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#459 Serafina217
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#460 Anika216
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#461 Izydora216