Cecilie — girls' name
371 babies named Cecilie in U.S. Social Security records since 1921, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
29% of everyone ever named Cecilie was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Cecilie in 1990 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Cecilie
The Social Security Administration has registered 371 babies named Cecilie between 1921 and 2022, spanning 102 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cecilie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 25 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Cecilie performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 106 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Cecilie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Cecilie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Cecilie 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 371 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.
Cecilie at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Cecilie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1921
- Peak year (1990)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 102 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
371 total births across 102 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1990 with 25 births in a single year.
Cecilie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 106 births that decade — 29% of Cecilie's all-time total
Cecilie decade highlights
- Peak decade 106 births
- Runner-up 52 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Cecilie's strongest decade
106 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 29% of all-time use.
Cecilie by state
Where Cecilie concentrates geographically — total births since 1921
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 6 | 1.6% |
6 of 371 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1921–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.