Girls' name · since 1880
Celie
519 babies named Celie in U.S. Social Security records since 1880, with the highest year being 1916. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #11,565 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,866 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 519
- born since 1880
- 1910s
- peak decade
Celie currently ranks #8866 among girls' names in America, with 519 babies recorded since 1880.
Celie has 519 recorded births among girls since 1880, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #8866 as of the latest data, more common than 49% of girls, busiest in the 1910s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1880 to 2025.
- #11,565 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #8,866 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 519 born since 1880
- 1910s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Celie ranks #11,565 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,866 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 519 born since 1880, peaking in the 1910s.
- #11,565 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,866 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 519
- born since 1880
- 1910s
- peak decade
Celie's 519 recorded births place it above 83.98% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Celie compares
519 Top 44% higher than 56% of 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Celie's all-time total is 38% above the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Celie | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 519 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 15 | 21 | 19,840 |
Celie's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Celie's full recorded timeline at 1937, 49% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 51% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1880, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1916 peak of 15 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Celie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1880–2025
- Peak year (1916)
- 15
- Annual births at peak, across 146 years of records
Celie by decade
1910s is the heaviest window (86 births, 17% of the file).
1910s was Celie's strongest decade.
86 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 17% of all-time use.
Celie births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1880s 24
1880s
24 births
- 1890s
1890s
40 births
- 1900s
1900s
38 births
- 1910s
1910s
86 births
- 1920s
1920s
62 births
- 1930s 22
1930s
22 births
- 1940s 21
1940s
21 births
- 1950s 15
1950s
15 births
- 1960s 11
1960s
11 births
- 1980s 21
1980s
21 births
- 1990s
1990s
35 births
- 2000s
2000s
83 births
- 2010s
2010s
38 births
- 2020s 23
2020s
23 births
What this shows Peak: 1910s at 86 births (17% of all-time use).
How Celie compares to similarly-sized names
Years in SSA records vs. share of all-time use concentrated in the single peak year, among 15 girls names closest to Celie's total volume
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What to do with Celie's data
- Celie's decade-level peak was the 1910s (86 total births); usage has since declined to 23 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Related Names
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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Celie: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1916)
Similar record span (~145 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1880–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Celie draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.