Girls' name · since 2008
Cely
45 babies named Cely in U.S. Social Security records since 2008, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #36,127 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,735 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 45
- born since 2008
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Cely is the #8735 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 45 recorded since 2008.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Cely has been recorded 45 times among girls since 2008, currently ranked #8735 nationally and more common than 49% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2008 to 2025.
- #36,127 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #8,735 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 45 born since 2008
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Cely ranks #36,127 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,735 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 45 born since 2008, peaking in the 2020s.
- #36,127 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,735 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 45
- born since 2008
- 2020s
- peak decade
Cely's 45 recorded births place it above 49.76% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Cely compares
45 15th percentile among 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
Cely's all-time total is 88% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Cely | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 45 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 12 | 21 | 19,840 |
Cely's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Cely splits its recorded history at 2023: 67% of all births land in the more recent half, 33% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2008 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 12 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Cely popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2008–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 18 years of records
Cely by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (35 births, 78% of the file).
2020s was Cely's strongest decade.
35 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 78% of all-time use.
Cely births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
35 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 35 births (78% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Cely: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2025)
Similar record span (~17 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, 2008–2025 (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 Cely 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.