Ceili
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ceili has been given to 288 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 1997, with 23 recorded.
Babies named Ceili, 2019
1 in 579,000
Ceili 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ceili?
Ceili had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 579,000
- 6 of 3,472,229 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 280,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 401,129 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ceili sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ceili. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ceilis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ceili was born before 2002 — so the typical Ceili is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 48.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 84.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 288
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 48.6% of all recorded uses (140).
Is Ceili 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1997 (23)
- Years since peak
- 28
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.2% average annual change
Spellings of Ceili
Ceili is not the most common spelling — Heidi is, with 25.7% against Ceili's 0.05%.
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.
Ceili around the world
Where Ceili 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.
- Northern Ireland2006–2012#451in 2012
- Ireland1993–2024#898in 2024
- Canada2000–2010#2,833in 2010
Popularity data from Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Statistics Canada. NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Ceili by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ceili
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ceili
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.