Meaning not yet researched.
Cecile: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #221 in 1898.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #221 in 1898; #5,592 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cecile in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,592 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1898, at #221.
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Cecile: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 girls in 2025. Peak: #221 in 1898 · most girls in one year: 495 (1918).
In 2025, 22 US girls were named Cecile, making it the 5,592nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 67 places from #5,659 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 22 girls named Cecile in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #221, reached in 1898. The most girls given the name in a single year was 495, in 1918. For comparison, it was #5,013 in 2015 and #601 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cecile in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 17 babies with the name. In all, 20,612 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 4,143 babies named Cecile.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 224 US girls were named Cecile; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 73,058 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Cecil (114,676 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cecile in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,592 | — | — |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,659 | — | — |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,996 | — | — |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,041 | — | — |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,119 | — | — |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,043 | — | — |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,834 | — | — |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,346 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,399 | — | — |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,314 | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,013 | — | — |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,507 | — | — |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,860 | — | — |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,859 | — | — |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,400 | — | — |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,226 | — | — |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,421 | — | — |
| 2008 | 23 | #5,983 | — | — |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,839 | — | — |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,708 | — | — |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,477 | — | — |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,730 | — | — |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,235 | — | — |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,296 | — | — |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,234 | — | — |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,530 | — | — |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,067 | — | — |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,387 | — | — |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,054 | — | — |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,851 | — | — |
| 1995 | 26 | #3,996 | — | — |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,311 | — | — |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,609 | — | — |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,514 | — | — |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,040 | — | — |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,702 | — | — |
| 1989 | 54 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,100 | — | — |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,791 | — | — |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,053 | — | — |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,662 | — | — |
| 1984 | 49 | #2,054 | — | — |
| 1983 | 35 | #2,555 | — | — |
| 1982 | 44 | #2,257 | — | — |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 1980 | 52 | #2,019 | — | — |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,871 | — | — |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,404 | — | — |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,787 | — | — |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,876 | — | — |
| 1975 | 39 | #2,173 | — | — |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,504 | — | — |
| 1973 | 35 | #2,227 | — | — |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,104 | — | — |
| 1971 | 36 | #2,216 | — | — |
| 1970 | 51 | #1,762 | — | — |
| 1969 | 56 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 1968 | 53 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 1967 | 61 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 1966 | 53 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 1965 | 77 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1964 | 77 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 1963 | 119 | #974 | — | — |
| 1962 | 124 | #954 | — | — |
| 1961 | 135 | #923 | — | — |
| 1960 | 140 | #878 | — | — |
| 1959 | 173 | #773 | — | — |
| 1958 | 185 | #725 | — | — |
| 1957 | 186 | #734 | — | — |
| 1956 | 166 | #755 | — | — |
| 1955 | 159 | #750 | — | — |
| 1954 | 163 | #722 | — | — |
| 1953 | 195 | #639 | — | — |
| 1952 | 203 | #614 | 5 | #3,819 |
| 1951 | 184 | #639 | — | — |
| 1950 | 196 | #601 | — | — |
| 1949 | 196 | #593 | — | — |
| 1948 | 214 | #570 | — | — |
| 1947 | 234 | #555 | — | — |
| 1946 | 225 | #523 | 5 | #3,599 |
| 1945 | 198 | #516 | — | — |
| 1944 | 214 | #492 | — | — |
| 1943 | 280 | #444 | — | — |
| 1942 | 282 | #429 | 5 | #3,642 |
| 1941 | 243 | #439 | — | — |
| 1940 | 310 | #372 | — | — |
| 1939 | 320 | #364 | 12 | #2,074 |
| 1938 | 313 | #371 | 12 | #2,098 |
| 1937 | 357 | #330 | 6 | #3,225 |
| 1936 | 359 | #326 | 5 | #3,625 |
| 1935 | 270 | #389 | 5 | #3,732 |
| 1934 | 210 | #450 | 7 | #3,017 |
| 1933 | 206 | #457 | 5 | #3,725 |
| 1932 | 235 | #428 | 7 | #3,130 |
| 1931 | 260 | #403 | 7 | #3,139 |
| 1930 | 295 | #395 | 9 | #2,807 |
| 1929 | 306 | #383 | 6 | #3,616 |
| 1928 | 328 | #377 | 11 | #2,536 |
| 1927 | 371 | #350 | 6 | #3,840 |
| 1926 | 378 | #344 | 8 | #3,171 |
| 1925 | 409 | #330 | 12 | #2,459 |
| 1924 | 422 | #327 | 7 | #3,546 |
| 1923 | 474 | #296 | 12 | #2,469 |
| 1922 | 422 | #316 | 7 | #3,582 |
| 1921 | 475 | #301 | — | — |
| 1920 | 482 | #297 | 7 | #3,537 |
| 1919 | 478 | #293 | 6 | #3,803 |
| 1918 | 495 | #284 | 8 | #3,148 |
| 1917 | 476 | #284 | 6 | #3,623 |
| 1916 | 417 | #295 | — | — |
| 1915 | 468 | #272 | 5 | #3,913 |
| 1914 | 351 | #280 | — | — |
| 1913 | 282 | #280 | — | — |
| 1912 | 275 | #270 | — | — |
| 1911 | 184 | #288 | — | — |
| 1910 | 187 | #284 | — | — |
| 1909 | 186 | #263 | — | — |
| 1908 | 155 | #282 | — | — |
| 1907 | 156 | #280 | — | — |
| 1906 | 163 | #257 | — | — |
| 1905 | 161 | #258 | — | — |
| 1904 | 173 | #234 | — | — |
| 1903 | 159 | #239 | — | — |
| 1902 | 181 | #222 | — | — |
| 1901 | 133 | #252 | — | — |
| 1900 | 175 | #246 | — | — |
| 1899 | 147 | #227 | — | — |
| 1898 | 172 | #221 | — | — |
| 1897 | 121 | #257 | — | — |
| 1896 | 144 | #231 | — | — |
| 1895 | 109 | #267 | — | — |
| 1894 | 102 | #275 | — | — |
| 1893 | 86 | #291 | — | — |
| 1892 | 92 | #278 | — | — |
| 1891 | 79 | #277 | — | — |
| 1890 | 71 | #294 | — | — |
| 1889 | 67 | #294 | — | — |
| 1888 | 81 | #256 | — | — |
| 1887 | 34 | #368 | — | — |
| 1886 | 43 | #319 | — | — |
| 1885 | 32 | #355 | — | — |
| 1884 | 29 | #369 | — | — |
| 1883 | 35 | #294 | — | — |
| 1882 | 27 | #344 | — | — |
| 1881 | 24 | #326 | — | — |
| 1880 | 17 | #405 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).