Ceda
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Acronym of Cross Examination Debate Association
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/stə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ceda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 324K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 870K
- BRBrazil1 in 1.6M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 324K (inferred from the name graph)
≈760 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Acronym of Cross Examination Debate Association.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Ceda is read(measured from records)
Ceda is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English38%
Acronym of Cross Examination Debate Association.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish35%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ceda in Spanish.
- Portuguese9.4%
inflection of ceder:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ceda 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Ceda | 1 |
| PH Philippines | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 324K | — | Ceda | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 129 | 1 in 1.6M | 129 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 7.6M | listed | Ceda | 59 |
| PL Poland | 44 | 1 in 870K | 23 | — | — |
| ZA South Africa | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Ceda | 5 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Ceda is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In osp, The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, to cede, to yield, to give up
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, inflection of cedere:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, yesterday
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 129 | #52,177 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 23 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 23 | #81,934 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 21 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 21 | #86,305 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ceda mean, and where does it come from?
- Acronym of Cross Examination Debate Association. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ceda?
- A machine transcription gives /stə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ceda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 762 people named Ceda in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ceda.
- How common is the name Ceda?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 129 people named Ceda, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cedaThe 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, “Ceda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.