Cerena
Feminine · “clear”
Serenus in Latin was said of weather. The word means clear, bright, cloudless — a serene sky before it was a serene person — and the transfer from the air to the temperament happened early enough that both senses were current in Rome. Cerena writes that name with a c, which English reads as an s before an e and which changes nothing at all.
How old is the name Cerena?
Cerena first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Cerena alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 600 people named Cerena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cerena most popular?
Cerena peaked in 2000, reaching #3983 nationally. Today it ranks #14942, 10,959 places below that high. See the whole 2000 chart.
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Where it comes from
From serenus to Cerena
The story of Cerena
Serena was a late Roman name and a Christian one; it was also the name of the wife of the general Stilicho, a figure of real consequence at the end of the Western empire. It stayed in Italian use and reached English through the Renaissance — Spenser gives it to a character in The Faerie Queene. American use grew through the twentieth century. The c-spelling belongs to the ordinary business of respelling a familiar name, and it appears in the record from 1915 with a much later peak in 2000.
Meaning
clear, calm, untroubled
From the Latin serenus, used first of weather — a clear sky, a day without cloud — and then of a mind or a face. The English serene carries both senses still. Serena is the feminine, and it was borne by an early Christian woman venerated in Rome.
How the name formed
- serenus
- Serena
- Cerena
Related forms: Serena · Serena · Serena
Pronouncing Cerena
seh-REE-nah
Three syllables, stress in the middle. The c is said as an s because it comes before an e, which is an English and Latin rule alike — so the spelling changes the look and nothing else.
Nicknames for Cerena
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1915
- Most girls named
- 200031 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3983reached in 2000
- Change vs 2023
- −16.7%5 in 2025, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Cerena in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Serena in Italian — same name
- Serena in Spanish — same name
- Serena in Latin — same name
Cerenas among us
people named Cerena are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 321,453 born in 2025 was named Cerena
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Cerena
- #14942
- Cerena on the 2025 chart
- #327
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Cerena went to 5 girls in 2025, but Serena and Serenna are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 953, which makes it the 327th most-given girls’ name of the year — 14,615 places above the chart.
- Serena942
- Serenna6
- Cerena5
About 1 girl in 1,687 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 321,453 for Cerena itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Keyonia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Cerena's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Keyonia climbed just as high around 1985, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Keyonia's path sketches the road Cerena is walking now.
Cerena sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Cerena beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Cerena in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is one word, entirely positive, and has a good story about weather behind it.
- Rena is available as a short form and is a standing name in several languages.
- Three open syllables that survive any accent intact.
- The Latin name behind it is documented and has real late-Roman history.
- Serena is the standard spelling and will be written instead on nearly everything.
- The change is inaudible, so the letters have to be dictated.
- Cerena, Sarena and Serina all appear, which multiplies the confusion.
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Frequently asked
- How many Cerenas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Cerena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Cerena?
- Cerena is one of 3 recorded spellings. Serena is the more common one — 942 births in 2025 against 5 for Cerena.
- How popular is the name Cerena in 2025?
- Cerena ranks #14942 among US girl names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Cerena?
- About 1 in every 321,453 US girls born in 2025 was named Cerena — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Cerena with classmates?
- Cerena will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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