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Cecilie

#11,136 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Cecilia

Cecilie has been given to 379 babies in the U.S. since 1921. In 2025 it ranked #11,136 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Cecilie, 2025

1 in 414,000

Cecilie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cecilie: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Cecilia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cecilie means

Cecilie is a form of Cecilia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Cecilie is used in Norwegian, Danish and Czech.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Cecilie → Cecilia. The family’s proposed meaning is “blind”, recorded in English with the source elements caecus.

Origin, language, and formation

Cecilie is used in Danish, German and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cecilia and Cäcilie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 379 girls were recorded with the name Cecilie between 1921 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1990; its best national rank was #3,705 in 1924.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,291 in 2015 to #11,136 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.

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How common is Cecilie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,136
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cecilie 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cecilie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cecilies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cecilie was born before 1990 — so the typical Cecilie is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
28.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
356
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Choose a decade

1990s — 28.0% of all recorded uses (106).

Is Cecilie 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,155
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.0%
Peak was 1990 (25)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,705
1924

Spellings of Cecilie

Cecilie is not the most common spelling — Cecilia is, with 46.6% against Cecilie's 0.16%.

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 Cecilie is used

Across 1910–2025, Cecilie 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. Cecilie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cecilie around the world

Where Cecilie 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
    1997–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    1909–2013
    #5,702
    in 2013
  • Norway
    1880–2024
    #446
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1948–1967
    #650
    in 1967

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Cecilie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,136
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,705
1924
Peak year
1990
25 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
379
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Cecilie

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

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Sibling names for Cecilie

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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