Ce
loc · Latin script
Meaning: abbreviation of Ceará: a state of Brazil
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Ce is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 160Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador≈1 in 240K
- CLChile≈1 in 350K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 199 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 124K (inferred from the name graph)
≈520 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Cé in DE Germany, BE Belgium and C-E in CA Canada.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)abbreviation of Ceará: a state of Brazil
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ce counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Cé | 45 |
| FR France | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 161K | 3 | Ce | 2 |
| US United States | 394 | 1 in 844K | 266 | Ce | 199 |
| CA Canada | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | C-E | 43 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Ce | 54 |
| EC Ecuador | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 236K | 1 | — | 4 |
| BE Belgium | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 243K | 1 | Cé | 9 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ce is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, at tte also in ncoonience: with, aie thus, there is indeed no help for it, (naiwings of a bird, flank of an army, to shelter, to aid, to brood over, flourishing, reverent, to-morrow
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, initiate enter tert ett Re 6 A RR A TI pearemnsnareesy—reee seems
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, a character, to love, to bear, to betroth a daughter
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, mai, (moi), Wa a sand storm, misty, foggy
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In sit-pro, threaten, scold
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Sun Ceb. 175CNChinese general, politician and warlord (175–200)
- Zheng Ceb. 1983CNChinese Go player
- Zhang Ceb. 1991CNChinese Go player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ce mean, and where does it come from?
- abbreviation of Ceará: a state of Brazil Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people named Ce?
- Mondonomo estimates about 521 people named Ce in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cé. After it come France, United States, Canada and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ce?
- In the United States, the national register counted 394 people named Ce in 2020, about 1 in 844 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ce?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ceThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ce”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.