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Cece

#6,593 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly blind, through Cecilia

Cece has been given to 536 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #6,593 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Cece, 2025

1 in 195,000

Cece over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cece: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly blind, through Cecilia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cece means

Cece belongs to the name family reached through Cece → Cecilia. Its meaning is “blind”.

Origin, language, and formation

Cece is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cecilia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 536 girls were recorded with the name Cece between 1947 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2021; its best national rank was #2,664 in 1957.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,634 in 2020 to #6,593 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,607 in 2015 to #6,593 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cece?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,593
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cece sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cece. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ceces were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cece was born before 2002 — so the typical Cece is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
21.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
526
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Choose a decade

2010s — 21.6% of all recorded uses (116).

Is Cece rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−380
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,041
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,014
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.55×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
77.3%
Peak was 2021 (22)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,664
1957

Spellings of Cece

Cece is not the most common spelling — Lee is, with 31.8% against Cece's 0.27%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Cece is used

Across 1910–2025, Cece was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cece has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cece around the world

Where Cece ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2025
    #816
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Cece by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,593
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,041
Best rank ever
#2,664
1957
Peak year
2021
22 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
536
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Cece

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Cece

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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