Cemre
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- jem-REH
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Cemre is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “ember”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Cemre mean?
Arabic: Turkish name from Arabic jamra 'ember'
“ember”
In Turkish folk belief three cemre fall in late winter, warming the air, water and earth before spring.
Is Cemre a girl's or a boy's name?
Cemre is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Cemre in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,935among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Cemre, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 10 girls.
2025 had more girls named Cemre than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Cemre in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Cemre in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 10 | #2,599 |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
Names like Cemre
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Florence Esme Olive Phoebe Elsie Rose Lyla Darcie Annabelle Lottie Aoife Clara
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Cemre: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cemre, updated 20 October 2026.