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Cera vs Cerina

American parents have registered 1,410 Ceras since 1880, against 548 Cerinas. Cera is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cera against Cerina, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cera Cerina

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 55 years in which either name was published, Cera for 43 years and Cerina for 12 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Cera Cerina
Total US births 1,410548
Most in one year 9832
Babies in 2025 87
Estimated living today 1,400540
Median age today 2726
Peak year 19952000
Best rank 1,550th girls3,886th girls
Rank in 2025 10,917th11,932nd
First recorded 19791966
Girls / boys 1,410 / 0548 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cera and Cerina.