Ceara
Ceara was last recorded in 2016, when 7 babies were given it; 1,510 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,480 Americans named Ceara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 26 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ceara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ceara?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,181, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
143 babies in 1991, the peak
Ceara peaked in 1991, when 143 girls were given it, #1,203 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 7 | #13,181 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,873 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,166 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,203 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,461 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,910 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,601 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,750 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,388 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,613 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 22 | #5,957 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,130 | 18.4 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,299 | 17.4 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,603 | 21.3 |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,202 | 24.5 |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,053 | 25.5 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,818 | 28.1 |
| 1999 | 71 | #2,133 | 40.0 |
| 1998 | 83 | #1,845 | 47.0 |
| 1997 | 108 | #1,502 | 62.0 |
| 1996 | 71 | #1,978 | 40.5 |
| 1995 | 68 | #2,004 | 38.7 |
| 1994 | 84 | #1,739 | 47.0 |
| 1993 | 86 | #1,722 | 47.5 |
| 1992 | 139 | #1,246 | 75.4 |
| 1991 | 143 | #1,203 | 76.3 |
| 1990 | 55 | #2,291 | 29.0 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,176 | 17.9 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,490 | 15.2 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,437 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,785 | 19.8 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,529 | 13.9 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,367 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,407 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,248 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,242 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,609 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,151 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,592 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,124 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,958 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ceara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ceara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ceara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ceara, and how old are they?
1,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,510 Americans ever recorded as Ceara. The median Ceara alive today is 31 years old; half are between 26 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 1,242 people named Ceara (1,242 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,488 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 27 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 809 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 616 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 30 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 50,170 babies since 1880, Ceara is the seventh most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 498 babies recorded by SSA was a Ceara (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ceara
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ceara and names like it
- Compare Ceara and KeiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCeara peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ceara since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Ceara.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ceara alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.