Cecile
Cecile is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 21 births. Its best rank was 221st, in 1898.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 210.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1918495 births
- Best rank
- #221in 1898
- Since 1880
- 20,398people given the name
The story in the numbers
20,398 girls have been named Cecile in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 495 births.
The name has all but left use: 21 births in 2024, against 495 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 84 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Cecile | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 389 | |
| 1890s | 1,123 | |
| 1900s | 1,642 | |
| 1910s | 3,613 | |
| 1920s | 4,067 | |
| 1930s | 2,825 | |
| 1940s | 2,396 | |
| 1950s | 1,810 | |
| 1960s | 895 | |
| 1970s | 335 | |
| 1980s | 402 | |
| 1990s | 295 | |
| 2000s | 262 | |
| 2010s | 237 | |
| 2020s | 107 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Cecile was the 284th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Cecile
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Laurettapeak 1915
- Mariepeak 1920
- Hildapeak 1921
- Fredapeak 1918
- Lethapeak 1918
- Nevapeak 1920
- Leathapeak 1916
- Verdapeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.