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Seferina
How to Pronounce Seferina
Pronounced seh-fuh-REE-nuh /ˌsɛf.əˈriː.nə/Medium
Meaning: Seferina is a Spanish feminine form of Ceferino or Zeferino, from the Latin Zephyrinus and ultimately the Greek 'zephyros,' the mild west wind. Saint Zephyrinus, an early pope, carried the name into Christian use, and Spanish-speaking families passed feminine forms like Seferina down the generations.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Seferina is the Spanish feminine of Ceferino, from the Latin Zephyrinus, 'belonging to the west wind,' rooted in the Greek 'zephyros,' the soft wind that heralds spring. The name reached the Spanish-speaking world through Saint Zephyrinus and endured in immigrant families in the early twentieth-century United States.
Seferina was never common in the United States, given to only about twenty girls a year at its faint peak around 1921, chiefly in Spanish-speaking households. A woman named Seferina then would be past a hundred now.
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What does the name Seferina mean?
It is a Spanish feminine of Ceferino, from the Latin Zephyrinus and Greek 'zephyros,' meaning 'of the gentle west wind.'
How do you pronounce Seferina?
It is said seh-fuh-REE-nuh /ˌsɛf.əˈriː.nə/, four syllables with the stress on the third.
Is Seferina a boy or girl name?
Seferina is used here as a girl's name.
How popular is Seferina?
It has always been rare in the United States, given to only about twenty girls a year at its peak in the early nineteen-twenties.