Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck have revealed their second daughter’s name: Seraphina, a source confirms to Usmagazine.com.

The girl was born Jan. 6 in Los Angeles.

Garner and Affleck — also parents to daughter Violet, 3 — did not reveal the meaning behind the baby’s name.

“Seraphina is an elaborately feminine kind of name that’s really come into style over the past few years, like [Affleck’s friend Matt Damon’s daughter] Isabella,” Baby Name Bible author Pamela Redmond Satran, who also runs Web site Nameberry, tells Us.

“Seraphim is one of the highest orders of angels,” adds Satran. “It kind of follows from Angelina, which has gotten super popular because of Angelina Jolie, as a a spiritual, heavenly name.

The ‘ph’ spelling of Seraphina is more Hebrew in origin. It means ‘ardent,’ which is passionate,” she says.

“Ben and Jen really put Violet on the map,” Satran says of the couple’s knack for naming. “They transformed it from what people saw as a dowdy, old lady name to a really cute, modern choice.”

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