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Cerenity vs Cerise

American parents have registered 1,409 Cerenitys since 1880, against 786 Cerises. Cerenity is still ahead, with 31 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cerenity against Cerise, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cerenity Cerise

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 74 years in which either name was published, Cerise for 47 years and Cerenity for 27 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Cerenity Cerise
Total US births 1,409786
Most in one year 7529
Babies in 2025 3117
Estimated living today 1,400740
Median age today 1239
Peak year 20121955
Best rank 2,449th girls1,978th girls
Rank in 2025 4,460th6,546th
First recorded 19981951
Girls / boys 1,409 / 0786 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Cerises alive today are over 39; half the Cerenitys are over 12. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cerenity and Cerise.