Ceri

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ceri: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ceri: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #357, and it was last ranked in 2017.

2registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
22years from first to last
#357highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2017

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#402
1997	#357
1998	#439
1999	#458
2000	#460
2001	#557
2002	#480
2003	#799
2004	#804
2005	#890
2006	#1153
2007	#899
2008	#1516
2009	#1837
2010	#2235
2011	#2025
2012	#2521
2013	#3536
2014	#3514
2016	#5785
2017	#4763

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 21 of the 22 years from 1996 to 2017.

In 2006: #764 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1153 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2017 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #402 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2017
Highest recorded position: #357 among girls in England and Wales, in 1997 (recorded 1996–2017).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2017
Most recently recorded at #4763 among girls in England and Wales, in 2017.
England and Wales · Girls

Ceri appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 21 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 721 births with the name.

Ceri across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ceri's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#402 (1996)	#357 (1997)	#4763 (2017)	21 of 22	721 (1996–2017)	91 (1997)
England and Wales · Boys	#1104 (1996)	#845 (1997)	#4805 (2012)	15 of 17	107 (1996–2012)	18 (1997)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#576 (1997)	#536 (2000)	#764 (2006)	4 of 10	13 (1997–2006)	4 (2003)

Ceri by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ceri in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	303	4 of 10	76
2000sbusiest	365	10 of 10	37
2010s	53	7 of 10	8

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 37 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2002 and 2003, when recorded births fell by 30, from 63 to 33.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ceri appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #357 in England and Wales in 1997.

Ceri's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2521	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2025	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2235	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1837	14	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1516	18	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2775	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#899	34	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1153	23	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2282	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#890	31	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1991	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#804	34	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1878	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#799	33	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#480	63	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1799	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#557	50	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#460	65	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1889	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#458	64	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1281	10	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#439	68	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1821	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#357	91	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#845	18	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#402	80	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1104	12	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	4	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	3	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2017, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #357, first reached in 1997.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 91 births, registered in England and Wales in 1997.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 1 year separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Cerys · #91, 29y
Cesilie · #354, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Cortney · #358, 16y
Ericka · #356, 23y
Daniels · #354, 19y
Juanita · #354, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Archibald · #357, 29y
Alanis · #358, 29y
Aqib · #358, 29y
Cortney · #358, 16y

Ceri was ranked #357 in England and Wales · Girls in 1997. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ceri and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ceri without appearing here.

Ceri moved ahead of

Graeme Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3467 and #2189 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1878 and #3009.

Moved ahead of Ceri

Malin Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3536 and #4739 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #2120.
Francis Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3536 and #4739 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #3214.
Kai Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3536 and #4050 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #3214.
Hudson Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1799 and #2005 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #3467 and #1092.

Moved the opposite way to Ceri

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Ceri went from #402 to #4763 while Ada went from #2683 to #114.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Ceri went from #402 to #4763 while Alma went from #2096 to #413.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Ceri went from #402 to #4763 while Alyssa went from #783 to #242.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Ceri went from #402 to #4763 while Amalie went from #2096 to #740.

Moved the same way as Ceri

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Ceri went from #402 to #4763 and Abigail from #21 to #73.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Ceri went from #402 to #4763 and Aimee from #70 to #448.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Ceri went from #402 to #4763 and Aisling from #440 to #1681.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Ceri went from #402 to #4763 and Alex from #161 to #1411.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #357 in England and Wales in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Ceri

Ceri at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ceri across 3 official records

Ceri by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Ceri appears in

Popularity data

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Ceri at a glance

Ceri across 3 official records

Ceri by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Ceri appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Ceri

Ceri and the names beside it

Ceri moved ahead of

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