Entry № 9400 · Italian origin

Serafina Serafina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ seh-rah-FEE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Fiery angel, seraph"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "fiery angel, seraph".

Serafina comes from the seraphim, the highest order of angels in Hebrew tradition, whose name means the burning or fiery ones. It is, quite literally, a name of a radiant angel.

Ornate and warm in the Italian and Spanish manner, it has a rich, romantic sound and the sweet nickname Sera or Fina.

Glowing and a little celestial, Serafina is an angel of a name.

A fiery angel — ornate and radiant.

The name in its native script.

Serafina
Transliteration
Serafina
Pronunciation
/ ˌsɛr.əˈfiː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Serafina stands.

Serafina does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Serafinas before her.

Real people
Seraphina Affleck
Daughter of Ben Affleck.
born 2009
In fiction
Serafina Pekkala
Witch queen in His Dark Materials.
Philip Pullman, 1995

Names connected to Serafina.

The number behind Serafina.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Serafina reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.