Ser

Locally spelled Shir in MY Malaysia, AF Afghanistan, Shyara in IN India and Syara in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Ser is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 4 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English51%

  Abbreviation of serial.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Portuguese26%

  to be (norm)

  as a word·A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

• Spanish10%

  to be (essentially or identified as)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Turkish5.4%

  head

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Ser is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname50 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Nigeria, Australia, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Şer, Šer, Sér, Şêr, Şér

• Indonesian name8 spellings in the group

  Also written Sër, Sêr, Sér, Şer, Şëř

• a separate name4 spellings in the group

  Also written Sér, Şer, Šer

• Turkish surname25 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria

  Also written Şer, Şêr, Sér, Şèr, Sër

• Russian given name35 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Сер, Сэр, Сеир, Сейр, Serres

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Ser is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Italian, do lat. senior, mais velho; elemento de composição e título de respeito medieval

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In Hebrew, Wise Peaceful

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Georges Serb. 1936FRFrench actor
• Simon SerFRFrench programmer
• Julie Ser-IstinFRFrench official

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Ser come from?

to be (essentially or identified as) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

What does the name Ser mean?

In English, Abbreviation of serial.

Which countries have the most people named Ser?

Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 thousand people named Ser in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shyara. After it come Malaysia, United States, Afghanistan and Mexico; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Ser?

In Costa Rica, the national register counted 1 people named Ser, about 1 in 5.1 million residents.