Serena (given name) explained
| Serena |
| Pronunciation: |
pronounced as /la/
pronounced as /it/ |
| Gender: | Female |
| Meaning: | "clear, tranquil, serene" |
| Language origin: | Latin |
| Related Names: | Serenity, Serenus |
Serena is a feminine given name. It is derived from the Latin word Latin: serēnus, meaning "clear, tranquil, serene". This name was borne by one of the first saints, Serena of Rome, purported wife of Emperor Diocletian.
People
- Serena (wife of Stilicho) (c. 370–408), important noblewoman of the late Western Roman Empire
- Serena Altschul (born 1970), broadcast journalist
- Serena Bocchino (born 1960), American artist
- Serena Auñón-Chancellor (born 1976), American physician, engineer, and NASA astronaut
- Serena Katherine Dandridge (1878–1956), American scientific illustrator, painter, naturalist, and suffragist
- Serena DeBeer, American chemist
- Serena Deeb (born 1986), American professional wrestler
- Serena Grandi (born 1958), Italian actress
- Serena Ivaldi Italian-born robotics researcher
- Serena Kani (born 1999), Indonesian badminton player
- Serena McKay (1997–2017), a Canadian woman whose brutal murder was posted online (see Murder of Serena McKay)
- Serena Nanda (born 1938), American author, anthropologist, and professor emeritus
- Serena Ortolani (born 1987), Italian volleyball player
- Serena Ryder (born 1982), Canadian singer-songwriter
- Serena Shim (1985–2014), American journalist
- Serena Williams (born 1981), American tennis player
Fictional characters
- Serena, cousin of main character Samantha Stephens in Bewitched; both roles were played by Elizabeth Montgomery
- Serena (Pokémon), the playable female protagonist in Pokémon X and Y and one of the main characters in the Pokémon anime
- Serena, in Edmund Spenser's poem The Faerie Queene
- Serena, in the film Terminator Salvation
- Serena, a swan in E. B. White's children's novel The Trumpet of the Swan
- Serena, one of the main characters from the video game Dragon Quest XI
- Serena the Healer, one of the heroes from the video game Master of Magic
- Serena, a character played by Deepika Padukone in
- Serena Baldwin, in the American soap operas General Hospital and Port Charles
- Serena Bishop, in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Serena Butler, from the Legends of Dune series of books
- Serena Kamin, in the 1998 American comedy movie My Giant
- Serena Southerlyn, a district attorney in Law & Order
- Serena Tsukino, the English dub name of the Japanese character Usagi Tsukino (English: Sailor Moon), the main character in Sailor Moon media
- Serena van der Woodsen, Gossip Girl character
- Serena Joy, an antagonistic character in The Handmaid's Tale, named Serena Joy Waterford in the television adaptation
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