Serafim
Meaning
burning one, of the six-winged angels (Portuguese form of the Italian Serafino)
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Serafim has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
3,315 people · the #3,624 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 62,500 · median age 65
Among people named Serafim living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1950s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 37 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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