Cercel

surname · Latin script

Meaning: earring

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/tʃertʃel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Cercel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 183K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M
  • PLPoland1 in 2M

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.

Spain (measured from records)

273 people

Sources
21 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 183K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

earring

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cercel 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 Cercel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain2731 in 183K273Cercel21
PL Poland191 in 2M15——
CH Switzerland71 in 1.2M7——
CZ Czechia21 in 5.4M2——
BE Belgium11 in 12M1—1

273 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)

Cercel is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Romania, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Çerçel

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Çérçél

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Çerçel, Çercel

27 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)

Cercel 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 Romanian, CERCÉL, cercei, s. m. Obiect de podoabă fixat sau atârnat de ureche.

    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)

19401960198020002020Florina Cercel, b. 1943Adrian Streinu-Cercel, b. 1956Titi Cercel, b. 1959Petrică Cercel, b. 1968Ionuț Cercel, b. 1996Ionuț Cercel, b. 2006

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)

FormalStimate domn / doamnă Cercel,Dear Cercel, (English)
InformalStimate domn / doamnă Cercel,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Cercel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—273#13,023
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—273#12,995
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202615—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—15#105,176
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20247#79,838
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20264—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4#216,359
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—2#173,991
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20081#163,105

Reference works 3

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 Cercel mean, and where does it come from?
earring Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Cercel?
A machine transcription gives /tʃertʃel/ (IPA) for Romanian.
In which country does Cercel have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 273 people named Cercel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cercel.
Where is Cercel most common?
Cercel is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 183 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Cercel?
In Spain, the national register counted 273 people named Cercel, about 1 in 183 thousand residents.

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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, “Cercel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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