Cecily — #1593 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Cecily

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,535 babies named Cecily between 1911 and 2024, spanning 114 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cecily currently holds the #1593 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 472 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cecily performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,632 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Cecily shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 991 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Cecily in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cecily 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 8,535 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.