Cicely
Cicely was given to 13 girls in 2025, #7,973 among girls’ names; 2,391 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,240 Americans named Cicely and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 33 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cicely by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cicely mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cicely is “a female given name from Latin, a variant of Cecily and Cecilia used since the Middle Ages.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cicely?
#7,973 among girls’ names, 2025
Cicely rose from #11,090 in 2015 to #7,973 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 8.1 per million.
256 babies in 1974, the peak
Cicely peaked in 1974, when 256 girls were given it, #608 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,973 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,433 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,402 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,844 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,746 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,252 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,295 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,126 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,330 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,090 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 11 | #9,685 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,169 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,456 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,877 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,435 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,759 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,068 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,607 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,961 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,302 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,920 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,651 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,407 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,854 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,424 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 29 | #3,989 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,743 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,055 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,098 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,227 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,485 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,358 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,223 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,080 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,333 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,138 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,098 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,114 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,739 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,872 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,792 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 71 | #1,567 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 85 | #1,431 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 83 | #1,460 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 79 | #1,503 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 114 | #1,162 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 116 | #1,122 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 129 | #1,031 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 96 | #1,183 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 119 | #1,012 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 256 | #608 | 0.17 |
| 1973 | 212 | #702 | 0.15 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,839 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,553 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,269 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,223 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,372 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,057 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,235 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,688 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,122 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,763 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,143 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,514 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,667 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,747 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,035 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,831 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,353 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,293 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,965 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,178 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,704 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,483 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,950 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,708 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cicely a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cicely has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cicely: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cicely, and how old are they?
2,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 2,391 Americans ever recorded as Cicely. The median Cicely alive today is 46 years old; half are between 33 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 2,189 people named Cicely (2,183 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,214 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 15 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 18 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,120 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 612 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 319 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 148 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Cicely born?
The states with the most babies named Cicely are California, Texas and Georgia, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 173 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 103 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 85 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 85 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 75 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 51 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 41 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 38 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| South Carolina | 37 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Louisiana | 35 | not ranked | 0.7× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cicely with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 9,332 babies since 1880, Cicely is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 416 babies (3.1%), the third 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 Cicely
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Cicely and names like it
- Compare Cicely and CieloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCicely peaked in 1974.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cicely since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Cicely.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Cicely alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.