Cerina
Feminine · “of Ceres”
Ceres was the Roman goddess of grain, and she is the reason your breakfast has a name. Cereal is her word. She also has an asteroid, the first one ever found, discovered on the first night of the nineteenth century and now classed as a dwarf planet.
How old is the name Cerina?
Cerina first appears in US birth records in 1966 — 59 years ago. The typical Cerina alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 500 people named Cerina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cerina most popular?
Cerina peaked in 2000, reaching #3886 nationally. Today it ranks #11932, 8,046 places below that high. See the whole 2000 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Ceres to Cerina
The story of Cerina
Ceres had the most practical job in the Roman pantheon and one of the oldest cults in the city, and her name survives in the word for what her grain becomes. When astronomers found the first object between Mars and Jupiter, on the first day of 1801, they named it after her, and it is still the largest thing in the asteroid belt. The other reading is quieter. Serenus means clear, of weather — an untroubled sky — and it gives serene and, less obviously, serenade: an evening song was sung al sereno, out in the calm night air, and English later assumed the word had something to do with the Italian for evening. It does not.
Meaningscholars disagree
of Ceres — or, in the other reading, calm
With a C, the name points at Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain and harvest, whose name gave cereal. With an S it is Serena, from Latin serenus, clear or calm, which gave serene and serenade. The two are unrelated and this spelling can be read either way.
How the name formed
- Ceres
- Cerina
Related forms: Serena · Serena
Pronouncing Cerina
suh-REE-nuh
Three syllables, stress in the middle, with the c said as an s — English c before e is always soft. cheh-REE-nah, with the Italian ch sound, is used in some families and follows Italian rules rather than English ones.
Nicknames for Cerina
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
- 1966
- Most girls named
- 200032 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3886reached in 2000
- Change vs 2022
- 0.0%7 in 2025, from 7
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.
Cerina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Serena in Italian — related form
- Serena in Spanish — related form
Cerinas among us
people named Cerina are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 229,610 born in 2025 was named Cerina
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Cerina
- #11932
- Cerina on the 2025 chart
- #913
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Cerina went to 7 girls in 2025, but Serina and Seryna are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 47, which makes it the 913th most-given girls’ name of the year — 11,019 places above the chart.
- Serina34
- Cerina7
- Seryna6
About 1 girl in 34,197 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 229,610 for Cerina 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 Marcea test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Cerina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marcea climbed just as high around 1948, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marcea's path sketches the road Cerina is walking now.
Cerina 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
Cerina beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Cerina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both possible roots are documented Latin words with visible English descendants.
- Three open syllables with a clear central stress.
- Two short forms, both of which are full names elsewhere.
- Serena and Sarina are both commoner, so the spelling will be given often.
- The c is read as an s by English rules, which loses the connection with Ceres that the spelling was reaching for.
- The two possible meanings have nothing in common, so the answer depends on the family.
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Frequently asked
- How many Cerinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Cerina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Cerina?
- Cerina is one of 3 recorded spellings. Serina is the more common one — 34 births in 2025 against 7 for Cerina.
- How popular is the name Cerina in 2025?
- Cerina ranks #11932 among US girl names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Cerina?
- About 1 in every 229,610 US girls born in 2025 was named Cerina — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Cerina with classmates?
- Cerina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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