Cera
#11,138 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cera has been given to 1,410 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #11,138 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 98 recorded.
Babies named Cera, 2025
1 in 414,000
Cera over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cera?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,138
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cera sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cera. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ceras were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cera was born before 1998 — so the typical Cera is around 27 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 48.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 36.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,410
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 48.3% of all recorded uses (681).
Is Cera rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +189
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −703
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −852
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.80×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 8.2%
- Peak was 1995 (98)
- Years since peak
- 30
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.8% average annual change
Spellings of Cera
Cera is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 12.3% against Cera's 0.03%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Cera is used
Across 1910–2025, Cera was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 235,162 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Texas1 in 100,000
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6Michigan1 in —
- 7Pennsylvania1 in —
- 8Tennessee1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cera has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cera around the world
Where Cera ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Canada1995–2004#2,752in 2004
- South Australia1997–2009#818in 2009
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cera by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cera
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cera
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.