Cerise
Feminine · “cherry”
English cut the s off the cherry. Old French cerise was a singular, but English speakers heard the final sound as a plural marker and made a new singular by removing it, which is how cherry entered the language: as a mistake about grammar.
How old is the name Cerise?
Cerise first appears in US birth records in 1951 — 74 years ago. The typical Cerise alive today was born around 1984, making them about 41 years old. About 700 people named Cerise are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cerise most popular?
Cerise peaked in 1955, reaching #1978 nationally. Today it ranks #6546, 4,568 places below that high. See the whole 1955 chart.
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Where it comes from
From kerasos to Cerise
The story of Cerise
The false singular is one of English's more entertaining habits: pea comes from pease, which was singular; cherry comes from cerise the same way. English then borrowed cerise again, centuries later and directly from French, this time as a color word, which is why the language has both. The color name entered English in the 1850s and was in fashionable use through the following century. As a girls' name it belongs to the mid-twentieth-century taste for French color and flower words, alongside Ecru, Fawn and Cerise itself, and its best year in United States records is 1955.
Meaning
cherry, and the deep red of one
French cerise, a cherry, from Latin ceresia, from Greek kerasos. The Greek word is generally connected to Kerasous, a city on the Black Sea coast in what is now Turkey, from which the Roman general Lucullus is said to have brought the cultivated cherry to Italy around 72 before the common era. In English cerise names the color rather than the fruit.
How the name formed
- kerasos
- ceresia
- cerise
Related forms: Cerise · Cereza · Ciliegia · Cherry
Pronouncing Cerise
suh-REEZ
Two syllables with the stress at the end and a z sound for the s. English speakers sometimes say suh-REESE with a hard s, which is the less common reading.
Nicknames for Cerise
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
- 1951
- Most girls named
- 195529 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1978reached in 1955
- Change vs 2024
- +13.3%17 in 2025, from 15
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.
Cerise in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cerise in French — same name
- Cereza in Spanish — related form
- Ciliegia in Italian — related form
- Cherry in English — related form
Cerises among us
people named Cerise are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 94,545 born in 2025 was named Cerise
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Ludell test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Cerise's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ludell climbed just as high around 1912, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ludell's path sketches the road Cerise is walking now.
Cerise 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
Cerise beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Cerise in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning, a vivid color and a documented ancient trade route behind it.
- Reese and Cherry are two very different short forms.
- End-stressed, which is uncommon in English girls' names.
- The s or z question at the end has no settled answer.
- It is a color word and reads as one to most people.
- In American ears it is dated to the 1950s and 1960s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Cerises are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Cerise are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Cerise in 2025?
- Cerise ranks #6546 among US girl names in 2025, with 17 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Cerise?
- About 1 in every 94,545 US girls born in 2025 was named Cerise — 17 in all.
- Will my child share the name Cerise with classmates?
- Cerise will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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