Entry № 9409 · Latin origin

Serenity Serenity — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ seh-REN-ih-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Peaceful, calm"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern as given name

A name that means "peaceful, calm".

Serenity comes from the Latin serenitas, meaning "peace" or "calm." The English word itself was first used as a personal name in the late 20th century, joining the wave of virtue names alongside Trinity, Destiny, and Harmony.

Serenity entered the U.S. top 100.

Peace. A modern virtue name from the Latin.

The name in its native script.

Serenity
Transliteration
Serenity
Pronunciation
/ səˈrɛn.ɪ.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Serenity stands.

Serenity 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.

Serenitys before her.

Real people
Serenity Reign Brown
Daughter of Kanye West (Khloé Kardashian niece).
In fiction
Serenity
Spaceship in Joss Whedon's Firefly.
Fox, 2002

Names connected to Serenity.

The number behind Serenity.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Serenity reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.