Cerys

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Cerys: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #91 in 2000, and it stood at #638 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
66times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#91highest recorded position
19groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#364
1997	#316
1998	#146
1999	#97
2000	#91
2001	#99
2002	#117
2003	#95
2004	#95
2005	#101
2006	#134
2007	#145
2008	#113
2009	#146
2010	#170
2011	#184
2012	#225
2013	#293
2014	#330
2015	#352
2016	#369
2017	#541
2018	#532
2019	#632
2020	#807
2021	#755
2022	#1006
2023	#1135
2024	#1406

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 every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #638 among girls in Scotland, #1406 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #364 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 recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #91 among girls in England and Wales, in 2000 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1406 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Cerys appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 7,506 births with the name.

Cerys 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.

Cerys'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	#364 (1996)	#91 (2000)	#1406 (2024)	29 of 29	7,506 (1996–2024)	578 (2000)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#528 (1999)	#241 (2008)	#856 (2023)	17 of 25	147 (1999–2023)	22 (2008)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#301 (1998)	#117 (2004)	#424 (2019)	19 of 22	154 (1998–2019)	19 (2010)

Cerys 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 Cerys in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	1,052	4 of 10	263
2000sbusiest	4,688	10 of 10	469
2010s	1,586	10 of 10	159
2020s	180	5 of 10	36

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 469 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1998 and 1999, when recorded births rose by 227, from 311 to 538.

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

Cerys 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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #91 in England and Wales in 2000.

Cerys'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
2024	England and Wales	female	#1406	23	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1135	29	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1006	34	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#755	49	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#807	45	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#632	62	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#532	79	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#541	80	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#369	124	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#352	133	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#330	138	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#293	160	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#225	222	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#184	277	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#170	311	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#146	375	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#113	479	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#145	373	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#134	411	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#101	504	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#95	545	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#95	541	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#117	395	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#99	487	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#91	578	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#97	538	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#146	311	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#316	111	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#364	92	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#296	5	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#211	9	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#297	6	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#246	7	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#124	19	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#190	10	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#185	11	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#190	10	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#265	6	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#177	10	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#117	16	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#202	7	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	female	#176	9	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	female	#230	6	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#184	8	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#259	5	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#301	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#581	6	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#424	10	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	5	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#325	15	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#593	6	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#299	16	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#241	22	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#404	10	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#345	11	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#347	10	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#304	11	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#439	6	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#528	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #91, first reached in 2000.

It held a top-100 place in 5 years, 3 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 578 births, registered in England and Wales in 2000.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, and 28 years 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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Ceylin · #2893, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Carson · #91, 30y
Olly · #91, 26y
Vinnie · #91, 29y
Bronte · #92, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Carson · #91, 30y
Olly · #91, 26y
Taj · #91, 18y
Vinnie · #91, 29y

Cerys was ranked #91 in England and Wales · Girls in 2000. 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.

Cerys 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 Cerys without appearing here.

Cerys moved ahead of

Marie Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1135 and #1087 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1406 and #1894.
Denise Compare
In 2012 they stood at #677 and #612 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #424 and #894.
Donna Compare
In 2012 they stood at #677 and #510 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #424 and #894.
Aimee Compare
In 2020 they stood at #807 and #749 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #755 and #1195.

Moved ahead of Cerys

Meabh Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1135 and #1288 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1406 and #952.
Anne Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1135 and #1640 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1406 and #1036.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #632 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #807 and #460.
Elaine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1135 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1406 and #1160.

Moved the opposite way to Cerys

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cerys went from #364 to #1406 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cerys went from #364 to #1406 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cerys went from #364 to #1406 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cerys went from #364 to #1406 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Cerys

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cerys went from #364 to #1406 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cerys went from #364 to #1406 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cerys went from #364 to #1406 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cerys went from #364 to #1406 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #91 in England and Wales in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Cerys

Cerys at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Cerys across 3 official records

Cerys by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Cerys appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Cerys

Cerys and the names beside it

Cerys moved ahead of

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Cerys at a glance

Cerys across 3 official records

Cerys by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Cerys appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Cerys

Cerys and the names beside it

Cerys moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Cerys

Moved the opposite way to Cerys

Moved the same way as Cerys