Girls' name · since 2017
Cersei
49 babies named Cersei in U.S. Social Security records since 2017, with the highest year being 2017. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #35,190 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,544 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 49
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
49 babies have been named Cersei since 2017, making it today's #14544 girls' name.
Social Security Administration records show Cersei recorded 49 times among girls since 2017, holding rank #14544 nationally today, ahead of 16% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2025.
- #35,190 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,544 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 49 born since 2017
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Cersei ranks #35,190 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,544 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 49 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.
- #35,190 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,544 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 49
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Cersei's 49 recorded births place it above 51.11% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Cersei compares
49 16th 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
Cersei's all-time total is 87% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Cersei | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 49 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 11 | 21 | 19,840 |
Cersei's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Cersei's SSA record in two at 2022 and the more recent half accounts for 51% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 49%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2019, with only 6 births recorded -- set against the 2017 peak of 11, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Cersei popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025
- Peak year (2017)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Cersei by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (32 births, 65% of the file).
2020s was Cersei's strongest decade.
32 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 65% of all-time use.
Cersei births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
17 births
- 2020s
2020s
32 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 32 births (65% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Cersei: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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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, 2017–2025 (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 Cersei 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.