Cecellia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cecellia has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1987. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1987, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Cecellia, 2013
1 in 729,000
Cecellia over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cecellia?
Cecellia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2013
- 1 in 729,000
- 5 of 3,645,938 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 351,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2013
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 505,435 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cecellia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 505,435 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cecellia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cecellias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cecellia was born before 1987 — so the typical Cecellia is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 50.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 10
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Cecellia 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1987 (5)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Cecellia
Cecellia is not the most common spelling — Cecilia is, with 63.4% against Cecellia's <0.01%.
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.
Cecellia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cecellia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cecellia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.