Ceria
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The compound cerium(IV) oxide
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɪɹiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ceria is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 2.6M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- USUnited States1 in 3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.6M (inferred from the name graph)
112 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
cheerful (noticeably happy and optimistic; bright and pleasant)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Ceria is read(measured from records)
Ceria is one spelling over 4 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.
- English40%
The compound cerium(IV) oxide.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian24%
cheerful (noticeably happy and optimistic; bright and pleasant)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ceria in Spanish.
- French5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ceria in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Ceria 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 112 | 1 in 3M | 160 | Ceria | 5 |
| ES Spain | 19 | 1 in 2.6M | 19 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 13 | 1 in 3.5M | 13 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | — | — | — | Ceria | 58 |
112 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)
Ceria is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of cerium
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)
- Eugenio Ceriab. 1870ITItalian priest and teacher (1870-1957)
- Edmond Ceriab. 1884FRFrench painter (1884-1955)
- Ugo Ceriab. 1900ITItalian footballer (1900-1979)
- Edoardo Ceriab. 1995ITItalian football 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 144 | #125,089 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 112 | #147,253 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 19 | #86,409 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 13 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Ceria come from?
- cheerful (noticeably happy and optimistic; bright and pleasant) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ceria?
- A machine transcription gives /sɪɹiə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Ceria mean?
- In English, The compound cerium(IV) oxide.
- In which country does Ceria have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 112 people named Ceria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ceria.
- Where is Ceria most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ceria is densest in Spain — about 1 in 2.6 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ceria?
- In the United States, the national register counted 112 people named Ceria in 2010, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ceriaThe 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, “Ceria”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.