Cece
Cece was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,593 among girls’ names; 536 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cece by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cece mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cece is “a diminutive of the female given name Cecilia.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cece?
#6,593 among girls’ names, 2025
Cece rose from #9,607 in 2015 to #6,593 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 10.6 per million.
22 babies in 2021, the peak
Cece peaked in 2021, when 22 girls were given it, #5,602 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,593 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,213 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,323 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,770 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,602 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,634 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,089 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,469 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,905 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,073 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,607 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,246 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,219 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,441 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,300 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,752 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,647 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,076 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,643 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,574 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,599 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,509 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,453 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,292 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,910 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,328 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,405 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,959 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,882 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,788 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,709 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,654 | 3.8 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,305 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,257 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,021 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,701 | 4.3 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,650 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,664 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,648 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,178 | 8.1 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,336 | 7.4 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,531 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,124 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,231 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,664 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,205 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,800 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,329 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,989 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,548 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,516 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,337 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,408 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cece a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cece has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cece: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cece, and how old are they?
An estimated 500 Americans named Cece and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 8 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,495 people named Cece (1,443 women and girls, 52 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 410 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Cece rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 798 babies since 1880, Cece is the most given (67% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Cece and names like it
- Compare Cece and CeciaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCece peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cece since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Cece.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cece alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.