Cerci
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: plural of cercus
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/səɹsi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cerci is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 274K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 1M
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.2M
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 274K (inferred from the name graph)
≈230 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Çerçi in TR Türkiye.
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)plural of cercus
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Cerci is read
(measured from records)Cerci is one spelling over 6 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.
- English22%
plural of cercus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cerci in Portuguese.
- Turkish17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cerci in Turkish.
- German14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cerci in German.
- French9.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cerci in French.
- Italian9.1%
de cidades cujo nome vem de cercea, corruptela de quercea 'carvalho'
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Cerci 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 274K | listed | Cerci | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 208 | 1 in 1M | 208 | Cerci | 35 |
| US United States | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | listed | Cerci | 10 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Çerçi | 7 |
| FR France | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 14 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)Cerci is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of cerca
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, CERCI s. m. pl. Pereche de formații filamentoase terminale la unele insecte.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)- Mehmet Çerçib. 1960TRTurkish statesperson (born 1960)
- Ferhat Çerçib. 1981DETurkish-German association football player (born 1981)
- Ayşe Melike Çerçib. 1983TRTurkish actor (born 1983)
- Alessio Cercib. 1987ITItalian association football player
- Selina Cercib. 2000DEGerman footballer
- Salim ÇerçiTRTurkish researcher
- Barış ÇerçiTRTurkish entomologist
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 208 | #35,619 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 3 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Cerci mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of cercus Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cerci?
- A machine transcription gives /səɹsi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Cerci have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 228 people named Cerci in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cerci.
- How common is the name Cerci?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 208 people named Cerci, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Cerci?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cerciThe 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, “Cerci”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.