Cicero
Cicero was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,396 among boys’ names; 1,453 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cicero by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cicero?
#12,396 among boys’ names, 2025
Cicero entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,396 in 2025.
41 babies in 1920, the peak
Cicero peaked in 1920, when 41 boys were given it, #1,108 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,396 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,682 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,083 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,395 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,974 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,625 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,825 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,278 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,087 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,913 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 5 | #6,536 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,448 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,641 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,205 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,030 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,898 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,715 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,523 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,475 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,909 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,651 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,492 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,018 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,690 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,699 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,411 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,904 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,670 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,601 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,856 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,178 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 14 | #2,156 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 13 | #2,202 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,707 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #2,872 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,231 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,137 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,233 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 18 | #1,795 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,047 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 14 | #1,863 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,824 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 16 | #1,848 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,164 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,100 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,581 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,728 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,571 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,642 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,551 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,273 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,614 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 15 | #1,839 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,516 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,707 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 25 | #1,468 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,744 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 18 | #1,842 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,379 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 29 | #1,357 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,688 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 27 | #1,460 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,386 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 38 | #1,161 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,655 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 41 | #1,108 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 36 | #1,167 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 29 | #1,318 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 24 | #1,451 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 34 | #1,124 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 32 | #1,144 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 25 | #1,162 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,118 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 19 | #1,061 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,052 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 11 | #989 | 0.06 |
| 1909 | 17 | #660 | 0.10 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,414 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,011 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,026 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 15 | #619 | 0.11 |
| 1903 | 16 | #554 | 0.13 |
| 1902 | 16 | #539 | 0.13 |
| 1901 | 6 | #970 | 0.06 |
| 1900 | 18 | #586 | 0.12 |
| 1899 | 12 | #586 | 0.11 |
| 1898 | 16 | #526 | 0.13 |
| 1897 | 11 | #657 | 0.10 |
| 1896 | 14 | #556 | 0.12 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,108 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 10 | #681 | 0.09 |
| 1893 | 13 | #546 | 0.12 |
| 1892 | 14 | #553 | 0.11 |
| 1891 | 10 | #608 | 0.10 |
| 1890 | 13 | #541 | 0.12 |
| 1889 | 8 | #732 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 14 | #533 | 0.12 |
| 1887 | 10 | #594 | 0.10 |
| 1886 | 8 | #710 | 0.07 |
| 1885 | 15 | #484 | 0.14 |
| 1884 | 11 | #578 | 0.10 |
| 1883 | 11 | #563 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 13 | #518 | 0.11 |
| 1881 | 18 | #398 | 0.18 |
| 1880 | 14 | #487 | 0.13 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cicero a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cicero has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 105 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cicero: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cicero, and how old are they?
An estimated 299 Americans named Cicero and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (21% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 50 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 495 people named Cicero (6 women and girls, 489 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 352 born in the U.S. The Census count is 41% above 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).
Where are babies named Cicero born?
The states with the most babies named Cicero are North Carolina, Georgia and Texas, with 94% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 143 | not ranked | 4.0× |
| Georgia | 108 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Texas | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| South Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Cicero is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cicero is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 4.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Cicero 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,040 babies since 1880, Cicero is the second most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 48 babies (10%), again the second most given.
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 Cicero
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 Cicero and names like it
- Compare Cicero and CiroBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sCicero peaked in 1920.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cicero since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Cicero.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cicero alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.