Cecilie
Cecilie was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,136 among girls’ names; 379 Americans have been recorded with it since 1921 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cecilie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cecilie mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Cecilie is “a female given name, variant of Cäcilie”
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cecilie?
#11,136 among girls’ names, 2025
Cecilie rose from #13,291 in 2015 to #11,136 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 5.0 per million.
25 babies in 1990, the peak
Cecilie peaked in 1990, when 25 girls were given it, #4,020 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,136 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,507 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,172 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,987 | 4.1 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,291 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,954 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,071 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,958 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,215 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,504 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #16,982 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,506 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,454 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,661 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,821 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,284 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,856 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,777 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,039 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,942 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,159 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,848 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,062 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,020 | 13.2 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,884 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,644 | 7.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,162 | 2.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,611 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,153 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,387 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,261 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,818 | 6.1 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,456 | 5.1 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,336 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,354 | 4.0 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,364 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,237 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,639 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,494 | 3.0 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,889 | 3.5 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,752 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,121 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,990 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,809 | 3.5 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,825 | 4.3 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,705 | 6.4 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,132 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,237 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cecilie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cecilie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cecilie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cecilie, and how old are they?
An estimated 336 Americans named Cecilie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 24 and 50. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 501 people named Cecilie (501 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 328 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 204,226 babies since 1880, Cecilie is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 3,242 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cecilie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1920-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Celene | 1,758 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cecilie and names like it
- Compare Cecilie and CeciliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCecilie peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cecilie since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Cecilie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Cecilie.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cecilie alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.