Given name
Cerys
“one who is dearly loved”
Cerys is used as a given name. One Welsh interpretation is “one who is dearly loved.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Welsh interpretation is “one who is dearly loved.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Welsh.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1998. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cerys through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 214
- 0 boys · 214 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −47%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 8 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 22 in 2014. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 246 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cerys’s family of names
Cerys has a related form in Carys. Cerys has a related form in Ceris. Cerys has a related form in Ceriss.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Cerys
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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