Meaning not yet researched.
Cicely: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #608 in 1974.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #608 in 1974; #7,975 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cicely in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,975 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1974, at #608.
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Cicely: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #608 in 1974 · most girls in one year: 256 (1974).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Cicely, making it the 7,975th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,463 places from #12,438 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 7 girls named Cicely in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #608, reached in 1974. That year also had the most girls given the name: 256. For comparison, it was #11,095 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cicely in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 5 babies. In all, 2,391 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,071 babies named Cicely.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 103 US girls were named Cicely; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Cecily (8,673 babies since 1880) and Sicily (1,494 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sicely, Ciceley and Cisely are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Cilla.
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: Sicely (13), Ciceley (6), Cisely (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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,975 | — | — |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,438 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,407 | — | — |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,849 | — | — |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,751 | — | — |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,257 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,300 | — | — |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,130 | — | — |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,333 | — | — |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,095 | — | — |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,690 | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,171 | — | — |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,463 | — | — |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,881 | — | — |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,438 | — | — |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,762 | — | — |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,072 | — | — |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,611 | — | — |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,963 | — | — |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,307 | — | — |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,925 | — | — |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,656 | — | — |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,411 | — | — |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,859 | — | — |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,429 | — | — |
| 1999 | 29 | #3,993 | — | — |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,746 | — | — |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,059 | — | — |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,103 | — | — |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,232 | — | — |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,490 | — | — |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,363 | — | — |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,228 | — | — |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,086 | — | — |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,338 | — | — |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,144 | — | — |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,103 | — | — |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,117 | — | — |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,740 | — | — |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,873 | — | — |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 1983 | 71 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 1982 | 85 | #1,431 | — | — |
| 1981 | 83 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 1980 | 79 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 1979 | 114 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1978 | 116 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1977 | 129 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 1976 | 96 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 1975 | 119 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1974 | 256 | #608 | — | — |
| 1973 | 212 | #702 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,840 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,555 | — | — |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,270 | — | — |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,224 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,374 | — | — |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,058 | — | — |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,236 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,689 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,123 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,764 | — | — |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,144 | — | — |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,516 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,669 | — | — |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,749 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,037 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,833 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,355 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,295 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,967 | — | — |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,179 | — | — |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,705 | — | — |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,485 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,952 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,710 | — | — |
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).