Meaning not yet researched.
Ciel: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,791 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 51% of babies named Ciel in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,791 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Ciel: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 girls in 2025. Peak: #4,791 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 28 (2025).
In 2025, 28 US girls were named Ciel, making it the 4,791st most common girls’ name of the year, up 133 places from #4,924 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 27 girls named Ciel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,791, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 28. For comparison, it was #6,072 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 27 US boys were named Ciel, making it the 3,966th most common boys’ name of the year, up 38 places from #4,004 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 27 boys named Ciel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,513, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 32. For comparison, it was #5,556 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ciel in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1999 with 6 babies. In all, 718 US babies have been given the name, 56% of them girls and 44% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 330 babies named Ciel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 215 US girls were named Ciel; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 57,402 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Ceil, Cielle and Zyel are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ceil (783), Cielle (247), Zyel (138), Ziel (69), Zel (29), Zyiel (14), Zeel (10), Siul (10).
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 Ciel 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 | 28 | #4,791 | 27 | #3,966 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,924 | 27 | #4,004 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,424 | 31 | #3,641 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,349 | 26 | #4,113 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,002 | 32 | #3,513 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,386 | 21 | #4,565 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,224 | 25 | #4,134 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,584 | 16 | #5,584 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,342 | 19 | #4,973 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,476 | 23 | #4,351 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,072 | 16 | #5,556 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,346 | 20 | #4,729 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,799 | 17 | #5,208 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,947 | 9 | #8,283 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,421 | — | — |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,932 | 5 | #12,590 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,125 | — | — |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,848 | — | — |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,133 | — | — |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,644 | — | — |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,068 | — | — |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,058 | 5 | #11,673 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,496 | — | — |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,862 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,545 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,027 | — | — |
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).