Cecily Girl
How popular is Cecily?
#1,540 girl name in 2025
137 baby girls were named Cecily in the US in 2025, making it the 1540th most popular girl name.
Cecily popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,540 for girls (▲ 58 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 137 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-36% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,175 in 2015, #1,593 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1989 (472 girls) |
| Highest rank | #497 in 1989 |
| First recorded | 1911 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Cecily counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Cecily family of names ranked #1,232 for girls in 2025 (#1,311 the year before), with 145 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Cecily | 137 | 94% |
| Cecilie | 8 | 6% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Cecily is most popular
Babies named Cecily per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Ohio: 0.1 per 1,000 (35 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.1 per 1,000 (31 girls)
- Illinois: 0.1 per 1,000 (26 girls)
- New York: 0.1 per 1,000 (44 girls)
- Massachusetts: 0.1 per 1,000 (13 girls)
Cecily by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 31 | #2,463 |
| 1920s | 117 | #2,168 |
| 1930s | 168 | #1,480 |
| 1940s | 287 | #1,249 |
| 1950s | 483 | #1,314 |
| 1960s | 425 | #1,519 |
| 1970s | 882 | #950 |
| 1980s | 1,288 | #497 |
| 1990s | 1,582 | #574 |
| 2000s | 1,009 | #1,743 |
| 2010s | 1,633 | #1,061 |
| 2020s | 768 | #1,540 |
Girl names about as popular as Cecily
Questions
- Is Cecily a boy or girl name?
- Cecily is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Cecily were girls.
- How popular is the name Cecily?
- 137 baby girls were named Cecily in the US in 2025, making it the 1540th most popular girl name.
- When was Cecily most popular?
- Cecily peaked in 1989, when 472 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #497 in 1989.
- How many people are named Cecily?
- 8,673 babies have been named Cecily in the US since 1880. We estimate about 8,043 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 32.
- Where is Cecily most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Cecily was most common in Ohio, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.