Cecelia — #568 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Cecelia

The Social Security Administration has registered 59,948 babies named Cecelia between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cecelia currently holds the #568 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 935 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cecelia performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 7,363 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Cecelia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 5,704 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Cecelia in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cecelia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 59,948 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.