Cecil — #1477 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Cecil

The Social Security Administration has registered 106,867 babies named Cecil between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cecil currently holds the #1477 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 2,459 babies received it in a single year. Cecil is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 7,687 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cecil performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 22,528 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Cecil shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 9,720 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Cecil in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cecil 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 106,867 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.