Sicily
Sicily was given to 51 girls in 2025, #3,164 among girls’ names; 1,494 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,480 Americans named Sicily and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sicily by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sicily?
#3,164 among girls’ names, 2025
Sicily fell from #2,997 in 2015 to #3,164 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 32.5 to 31.7 per million.
74 babies in 2006, the peak
Sicily peaked in 2006, when 74 girls were given it, #2,507 among girls’ names. The 51 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,164 | 31.7 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,167 | 31.5 |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,423 | 29.3 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,523 | 27.4 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,483 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,832 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,758 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,835 | 22.9 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,756 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,148 | 20.3 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,997 | 32.5 |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,220 | 28.5 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,260 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,975 | 32.9 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,168 | 30.1 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,248 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,961 | 32.1 |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,921 | 32.3 |
| 2007 | 71 | #2,614 | 36.9 |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,507 | 38.9 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,779 | 32.5 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,433 | 24.0 |
| 2003 | 40 | #3,577 | 21.9 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,964 | 18.4 |
| 2001 | 32 | #4,014 | 17.8 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,507 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,289 | 15.2 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,325 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,382 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,516 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,219 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,606 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,418 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,603 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,914 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,944 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,663 | 4.9 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,984 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,157 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,797 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,072 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,317 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,060 | 4.8 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,322 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,803 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,519 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,045 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,976 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,820 | 8.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sicily a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sicily has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sicily: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sicily, and how old are they?
1,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,494 Americans ever recorded as Sicily. The median Sicily alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,152 people named Sicily (1,149 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,214 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 64 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 117 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 718 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 577 |
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 Sicily born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #3,058 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,120 | 0.1× |
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 Sicily 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 1,841 babies since 1880, Sicily is the most given (81% of them). In 2025 it was given to 51 of their 78 babies (65%), 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 Sicily
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 Sicily and names like it
- Compare Sicily and SiciliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSicily peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sicily since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Sicily.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sicily alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.