Entry № 9403 · Hebrew origin

Seraphina Seraphina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ seh-rah-FEE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Burning ones, fiery angels"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Latin)

A name that means "burning ones, fiery angels".

Seraphina comes from the Hebrew Seraphim (שְׂרָפִים) — the highest order of angels, described in Isaiah 6 as six-winged beings of fire who attend the throne of God. The root śrp means "to burn."

Seraphina has been rising rapidly — propelled by Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck naming their daughter Seraphina (born 2009). Today it sits in the U.S. top 350.

Burning ones. The six-winged angels of Isaiah's vision.

The name in its native script.

שְׂרָפִים
Transliteration
Sĕrāphîm
Pronunciation
/ ˌsɛr.əˈfiː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Seraphina stands.

Seraphina 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.

Seraphinas before her.

Real people
Seraphina Affleck
Daughter of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck.
born 2009
Saint Seraphina
Italian saint, patroness of San Gimignano.
1238 – 1253
In fiction
Seraphina
Heroine of Rachel Hartman's novel.
2012 novel

Names connected to Seraphina.

The number behind Seraphina.

1

The Leader

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