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Cerise

Gender
Girl
Origin
French
UK rank, 2025
#5,990 for girls
US rank, 2025
#6,545 for girls

Cerise is a girls' name of French origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies) and 6,545th for girls in the US (17 babies).

What does Cerise mean?

French

A female given name from French.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Cerise a girl's or a boy's name?

Cerise is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK and 17 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Cerise in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#5,990among girls
Babies in 2025
3about 1 in 93,000 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, 3 girls in the UK were named Cerise, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2003, with 18 girls.

Half of all the girls named Cerise in the UK since 1996 were born between 1999 and 2011. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 18 in 20032025
Cerise in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20253#5,990
20240–
20230–
20223#5,885
20213#5,824
20200–
20190–
20181#7,536
20174#4,967
20161#7,664
20150–
201410#2,618
20135#4,267
201210#2,666
20119#2,794
20104#4,931
20098#2,909
200810#2,454
20074#4,494
200611#2,119
200511#2,061
20044#3,916
200318#1,317
20028#2,231
20014#3,427
20006#2,554
199911#1,653
199814#1,417
199713#1,466
19968#2,012

How popular is Cerise in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,545among girls
Babies in 2025
17about 1 in 95,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising fastup 144% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 17 girls in the US were named Cerise, making it the 6,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 1955, with 29 girls. It first appears in the records in 1951.

It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had more girls named Cerise than any year since 1989.

Half of all the girls named Cerise in the US since 1880 were born between 1969 and 2003, the years shaded on the chart below.

1951Busiest: 29 in 19552025
Cerise in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202517#6,545
202415#7,247
202312#8,481
20229#10,377
202113#8,019
20207#12,137
20190–
201811#9,146
20175#15,898
20165#16,210
201510#10,143
20146#14,552
201311#9,607
20128#12,193
20110–
201010#10,446
200915#8,054
20087#13,827
200711#10,125
200610#10,606
20055#16,455
20046#14,172
200311#9,043
200211#8,831
200112#8,189
20009#9,867
19998#10,338
19989#9,254
19979#9,012
19968#9,576
199513#6,636
19949#8,798
19937#10,581
199216#5,711
19919#8,580
199012#6,861
198918#4,842
19880–
198717#4,656
198612#5,754
19859#6,952
198413#5,221
198313#5,147
198214#4,943
198112#5,570
198017#4,326
197913#5,091
197813#4,931
197714#4,651
197611#5,213
197511#5,159
197414#4,226
197315#3,970
19729#5,479
197115#3,941
197012#4,491
19699#5,056
19687#5,641
196713#3,655
196610#4,197
196511#3,951
19646#6,008
19637#5,295
196212#3,781
196113#3,607
19607#5,167
195910#4,030
19588#4,519
195718#2,726
19566#5,324
195529#1,977
19549#3,965
19536#5,039
195212#3,200
19515#5,413

Names like Cerise

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Cerise: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cerise, updated 20 October 2026.