Meaning not yet researched.
Cecily: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 137 in 2025. Its best rank was #498 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #498 in 1989; #1,541 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cecily in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,541 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #498.
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Cecily: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 137 girls in 2025. Peak: #498 in 1989 · most girls in one year: 472 (1989).
In 2025, 137 US girls were named Cecily, making it the 1,541st most common girls’ name of the year, up 60 places from #1,601 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 131 girls named Cecily in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #498, reached in 1989. That year also had the most girls given the name: 472. For comparison, it was #1,176 in 2015 and #1,414 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cecily in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 5 babies. In all, 8,673 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,633 babies named Cecily.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,457 US girls were named Cecily; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 196. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,732 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cecily ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #879 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cicely (2,391 babies since 1880), Cecilia (111,688 babies since 1880) and Sicily (1,494 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cicily, Secily and Cesily are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cicily (683), Secily (130), Cesily (97), Cessily (24), Sesily (20), Cescily (6), Cesiley (5).
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 Cecily in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #879 | #889 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,040 | #1,082 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,076 | #670 |
| New York | 13 | #1,099 | #894 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,168 | #986 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,639 | #1,365 |
| California | 12 | #1,762 | #1,749 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,226 | #1,517 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 137 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 2024 | 131 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 2023 | 111 | #1,816 | — | — |
| 2022 | 131 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 2021 | 127 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 2020 | 131 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 2019 | 161 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 2018 | 141 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 2017 | 191 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 2016 | 196 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 2015 | 214 | #1,176 | — | — |
| 2014 | 244 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 2013 | 170 | #1,372 | — | — |
| 2012 | 114 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 2011 | 104 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 2010 | 98 | #2,031 | — | — |
| 2009 | 109 | #1,920 | — | — |
| 2008 | 112 | #1,893 | — | — |
| 2007 | 99 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 2006 | 119 | #1,744 | — | — |
| 2005 | 101 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 2004 | 88 | #2,071 | — | — |
| 2003 | 100 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 2002 | 87 | #2,006 | — | — |
| 2001 | 98 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 2000 | 96 | #1,801 | — | — |
| 1999 | 108 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 1998 | 112 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 1997 | 127 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1996 | 132 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1995 | 143 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 1994 | 117 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 1993 | 117 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 1992 | 134 | #1,274 | — | — |
| 1991 | 189 | #991 | — | — |
| 1990 | 403 | #575 | — | — |
| 1989 | 472 | #498 | — | — |
| 1988 | 236 | #793 | — | — |
| 1987 | 150 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 1986 | 49 | #2,149 | — | — |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,814 | — | — |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,837 | — | — |
| 1983 | 58 | #1,817 | — | — |
| 1982 | 57 | #1,878 | — | — |
| 1981 | 73 | #1,599 | — | — |
| 1980 | 73 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1979 | 86 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 1978 | 96 | #1,277 | — | — |
| 1977 | 94 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1976 | 81 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1975 | 110 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1974 | 130 | #951 | — | — |
| 1973 | 114 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1972 | 55 | #1,632 | — | — |
| 1971 | 55 | #1,666 | — | — |
| 1970 | 61 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 1969 | 55 | #1,610 | — | — |
| 1968 | 32 | #2,131 | — | — |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,853 | — | — |
| 1966 | 44 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 1965 | 41 | #1,771 | — | — |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,922 | — | — |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 1962 | 36 | #1,919 | — | — |
| 1961 | 55 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 1960 | 47 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 1959 | 66 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1958 | 41 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1957 | 53 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 1956 | 43 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 1955 | 50 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1954 | 51 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 1953 | 50 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 1952 | 52 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 1951 | 35 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 1950 | 42 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 1946 | 35 | #1,481 | — | — |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 1942 | 41 | #1,249 | — | — |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,693 | — | — |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,445 | — | — |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,762 | — | — |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 1936 | 25 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,931 | — | — |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,565 | — | — |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,256 | — | — |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,604 | — | — |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,324 | — | — |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,950 | — | — |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,795 | — | — |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,183 | — | — |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,589 | — | — |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,404 | — | — |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,539 | — | — |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,756 | — | — |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,634 | — | — |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,086 | — | — |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,928 | — | — |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,841 | — | — |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,917 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,524 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,528 | — | — |
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).