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Cerise

#6,594 in 2025Girls' name

Cherry

Cerise has been given to 786 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #6,594 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1955, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Cerise, 2025

1 in 195,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cerise: meaning, origin, and history

Cherry

French

What Cerise means

Cerise means “cherry”.

Origin, language, and formation

Cerise is used in English and French. Its origins include French.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Cerise is pronounced /sə.ʁiz/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 786 girls were recorded with the name Cerise between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 1955; its best national rank was #1,983 in 1955.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,404 in 2020 to #6,594 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,288 in 2015 to #6,594 in 2025.

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 Cerise?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,594
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cerise 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 2025 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cerise. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cerises were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cerise was born before 1984 — so the typical Cerise is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
16.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
786
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1970s — 16.2% of all recorded uses (127).

Is Cerise 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
+720
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,810
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,694
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.70×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.6%
Peak was 1955 (29)
Years since peak
70
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,983
1955

Spellings of Cerise

Cerise is not the most common spelling — Denise is, with 60.7% against Cerise's 0.13%.

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 Cerise is used

Across 1910–2025, Cerise was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 762,513 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Cerise has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cerise around the world

Where Cerise 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
    1996–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2008
    #793
    in 2008
  • France
    1963–2025
    #2,306
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1966–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Cerise by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,594
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,810
Best rank ever
#1,983
1955
Peak year
1955
29 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
786
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Cerise

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

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Sibling names for Cerise

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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