Ceti

given name · Latin script

Meaning: One of the sixteen Mahājanapadas, identified with Cedi; an ancient and later Ceti settlement, with Sahajāti as a Buddhist center (A.iii.355; Vin.iv.108; J.iii.454ff.)

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

Ceti is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 197K(inferred from the name graph)

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)

≈520 people, est.

Sources
19 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 197K (inferred from the name graph)

Congo - Kinshasa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

One of the sixteen Mahājanapadas, identified with Cedi; an ancient and later Ceti settlement, with Sahajāti as a Buddhist center (A.iii.355; Vin.iv.108; J.iii.454ff.).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ceti 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 Ceti is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa≈520 est.≈1 in 197K—Ceti2
FR France———Ceti19
IN India——listed——
EE Estonia——listed——

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 sunama-sarit-sanskrit-2020 register; the ee-siseministeerium-registry 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)

Ceti is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Mexico

    Also written Çeti, Cèti

  • German given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Congo - Kinshasa

    Languages: German, English

    Also written Çetî, Çeti, Cèti, Céti

  • Swahili given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written Cèti

  • Albanian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania

    Also written Çeti, Çétí

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Çeti

41 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)

Ceti 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 Indonesian, a South Indian

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

  • Indraksi (५)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • In English, Acronym of communication with extraterrestrial intelligence.

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

  • genitive of Cetus used when naming stars, such as α Ceti.

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

  • In Romanian, archaic form of citi

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Ceti
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EE EstoniaSiseministeerium — population register name list 20232023——
IN IndiaSunama Sarit — Sanskrit Names (2020)———

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Ceti mean, and where does it come from?
One of the sixteen Mahājanapadas, identified with Cedi; an ancient and later Ceti settlement, with Sahajāti as a Buddhist center (A.iii.355; Vin.iv.108; J.iii.454ff.). Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh).
Is Ceti a male or female name?
Ceti is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Ceti have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 516 people named Ceti in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ceti.
How common is the name Ceti?
Mondonomo estimates about 520 people in Congo - Kinshasa have Ceti as their first given name, about 1 in 197 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Ceti”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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