Cielo
Cielo was given to 342 girls in 2025, #795 among girls’ names; 4,928 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,890 Americans named Cielo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 4 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cielo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cielo?
#795 among girls’ names, 2025
Cielo rose from #1,799 in 2015 to #795 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.06 to 0.21 per 1,000.
376 babies in 2024, the peak
Cielo peaked in 2024, when 376 babies were given it (348 girls, #808 among girls’ names). The 364 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 97% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 342 | #795 | 0.21 |
| 2024 | 348 | #808 | 0.21 |
| 2023 | 310 | #863 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 263 | #996 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 192 | #1,224 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 140 | #1,519 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 148 | #1,484 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 143 | #1,522 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 150 | #1,484 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 154 | #1,488 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 116 | #1,799 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 115 | #1,784 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 100 | #1,970 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 110 | #1,838 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 113 | #1,794 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 139 | #1,577 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 128 | #1,719 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 150 | #1,541 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 139 | #1,608 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 127 | #1,665 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 121 | #1,647 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 131 | #1,528 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 157 | #1,313 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 173 | #1,185 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 259 | #886 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 245 | #894 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 44 | #2,999 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,938 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,146 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,438 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,054 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,197 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,106 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,877 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,803 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,432 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,889 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,631 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,646 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,529 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,717 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,248 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,341 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,542 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,894 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cielo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,928 Americans recorded as Cielo, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 342 girls and 22 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cielo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cielo, and how old are they?
4,890 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,928 Americans ever recorded as Cielo. The median Cielo alive today is 12 years old; half are between 4 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 3,636 people named Cielo (3,518 women and girls, 118 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,230 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 12 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 136 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,640 |
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 Cielo born?
The states with the most babies named Cielo are California, Texas and Arizona, with 65% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 114 | #300 | 2.3× |
| Texas | 71 | #489 | 1.8× |
| Arizona | 20 | #346 | 2.1× |
| Florida | 16 | #971 | 0.6× |
| Oklahoma | 12 | #349 | 0.3× |
| Washington | 10 | #629 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 9 | #947 | 0.7× |
| New York | 8 | #1,554 | 0.4× |
| Colorado | 8 | #653 | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #964 | 0.3× |
Where Cielo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cielo is most over-represented in California: since 1977 it was given 2.3 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 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 Cielo 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,695 babies since 1880, Cielo is the most given (51% of them). In 2025 it was given to 364 of their 511 babies (71%), again the 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 Cielo
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 Cielo and names like it
- Compare Cielo and CicelyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCielo peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cielo since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Cielo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cielo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.