Girls' name · since 1975

Cerelia

27 babies named Cerelia in U.S. Social Security records since 1975, with the highest year being 1975. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.

#42,124 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#15,352 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
27
born since 1975
2020s
peak decade

27 babies have been named Cerelia since 1975, making it today's #15352 girls' name.

Cerelia has 27 recorded births among girls since 1975, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #15352 as of the latest data, more common than 11% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1975 to 2025.

  • #42,124 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #15,352 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 27 born since 1975
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Cerelia ranks #42,124 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,352 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 27 born since 1975, peaking in the 2020s.

#42,124 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#15,352 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
27
born since 1975
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%11.2%
Cerelia vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Cerelia's 27 recorded births place it above 41.22% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Cerelia compares

27 10th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Cerelia's all-time total is 93% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Cerelia Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 27 376 567,345
Peak-year births 6 21 19,840

Cerelia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Divide Cerelia's SSA record in two at 2021 and the more recent half accounts for 59% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 41%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1988, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1975 peak of 6, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.

Cerelia popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1975–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (1975)
6
Annual births at peak, across 51 years of records
4.555.566.5 19751988202120242025 5

Cerelia by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (16 births, 59% of the file).

2020s was Cerelia's strongest decade.

16 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 59% of all-time use.

Cerelia births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 16 births (59% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Cerelia?
27 babies have been named Cerelia since 1975. All-time, it sits at #42,124 of 72,339 girls' names by recorded births. In 2025, it ranks #15,352 of 17,297 among girls. The peak year was 1975 with 6 births.
Where does Cerelia sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Cerelia ranks #42,124 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,352 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Cerelia most popular?
Cerelia was most popular in the 2020s decade with 16 total births. The single peak year was 1975.
How long has the name Cerelia been used?
Records for Cerelia go back to 1975, giving 51 years of history through 2025.
What names are similar to Cerelia?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Cera, Cerenity, Cerise, Cerena, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span

Two nationwide peer axes for Cerelia: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1975–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Cerelia draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.