Ceferino
Ceferino is a name with a single cultural origin: Spanish.
- Spanish
Meaning & Origin of Ceferino
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Ceferino is a name with a single cultural origin: Spanish.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Spanish
The Story of Ceferino
Ceferino first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1924, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1981: 12 births, good for #3,413 nationwide. About 22% of every Ceferino on record arrived during the 1950s, its defining decade. Ceferino last appeared in the published SSA data in 2007, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 126 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1920s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Ceferino
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Ceferino. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Céfiro
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About the name Ceferino
Ceferino is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1924 and has accumulated 126 births in the dataset. Ceferino's peak popularity came in 1981 when it ranked #3,413. Use the chart and map above to compare Ceferino's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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