How Many People Are Named Cem?
people named Cem are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 3,224,385 people in the US has this name
Based on 109 babies named Cem in Social Security records from 1982 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
10 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Turkish form of JAM.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Cem in English. Counting Cem and these spellings together, about 273 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Cem in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Cem alive today is about 23 years old, and 76% are under 30. Half of them were between 19 and 29 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Cem first appears in the records in 1982 and was given most often in 2005, to 10 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1982 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Cem has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #6,056, in 1996.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #6,056 (1996) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #8,893 in the 1990s |
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