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Ceri

Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Ceri has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 1952. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Ceri, 2012

1 in 732,000

Ceri over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ceri: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Welsh

What Ceri means

Ceri is a shortening of Ceridwen.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ceri is used in Welsh.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkeː.rɪ/ and /ˈkɛ.rɪ/ for Ceri.

Origin, language, and formation

Ceri is used in English and Welsh. Its origins include Welsh.

Ceri comes through Welsh Ceri.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ceridwen.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Ceri is pronounced /ˈkɛrɪ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 79 girls were recorded with the name Ceri between 1952 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2006; its best national rank was #5,667 in 1952.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ceri?

Ceri had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ceri sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ceri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ceris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ceri was born before 1985 — so the typical Ceri is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
29.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
79
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 29.1% of all recorded uses (23).

Is Ceri 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (8)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,667
1952

Spellings of Ceri

Ceri is not the most common spelling — Lori is, with 16.4% against Ceri's <0.01%.

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.

Ceri around the world

Where Ceri 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2017
    #4,763
    in 2017
  • Scotland
    1975–2005
    #687
    in 2005
  • Ireland
    1997–2006
    #764
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1944–1985
    #671
    in 1985

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ceri by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,667
1952
Peak year
2006
8 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
79
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ceri

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ceri

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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