Cera

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Cera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: do lat. cera 'cera'; vendedor desse produto.

rarermore common
  • COColombia≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 37K
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 38K

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.

Colombia (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,300 people, est.

Sources
110 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)

Colombia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Portuguese

do lat. cera 'cera'; vendedor desse produto

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cera 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.

Where Cera is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#899≈3,300 est.≈1 in 15K—Cera69
PH Philippines—≈3,000 est.≈1 in 37K—Cera24
IT Italy—≈1,900 est.≈1 in 33KlistedCera18
US United States—1,2241 in 272K1.3KCera110
VE Venezuela—≈750 est.≈1 in 38K—Cera17
AO Angola—≈710 est.≈1 in 46K—Cera2

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cera is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Çera, Cerà, C'Era, Céra

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Also written Cerà

  • French name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Sere-En-Lavedan

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Çera, Čera

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Kenya

    Also written Çera

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Italy

    Also written Çera, Cerà

  • Chinese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Spain

    Also written C'Era

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Cera 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 sdc, alternative form of zera (“wax. beeswax”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, complexion (appearance of the skin on the face)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, wax (oily, water-resistant substance)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, wax, beeswax, honeycomb

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In sdn, wax. beeswax

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

19201940196019802000Adriano Cera, b. 1938Pierluigi Cera, b. 1941Angelo Cera, b. 1952Jack Cera, b. 1956Francesco Cera, b. 1967Andrea Cera, b. 1969Nuno Cera, b. 1972Michael Cera, b. 1988

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)

Attested in 41 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Cera
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.2K#21,564
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.2K#21,382
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000984#23,940
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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

In which country does Cera have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Cera in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cera.
What does the name Cera mean?
Recorded meaning: do lat. cera 'cera'; vendedor desse produto
What are other forms of the name Cera?
In the etymology graph, Cerino, Cerillo and Cirio are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Cera?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,224 people named Cera in 2010, about 1 in 272 thousand residents.
How common is Cera compared with other names?
In Colombia, Cera is the 899th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Cera” — the 899th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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