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Ceola

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Ceola has been given to 2,185 babies in the U.S. since 1890. 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 1924, with 70 recorded.

Babies named Ceola, 1988

1 in 739,000

Ceola over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ceola: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ceola means

Ceola is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ceola is used in Old English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old English, Ceola is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃe͜o.lɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,164 girls were recorded with the name Ceola between 1890 and 1988. Its highest annual count was 70 in 1924; its best national rank was #798 in 1906.

In the United States, 21 boys were recorded with the name Ceola between 1924 and 1936. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1936; its best national rank was #3,201 in 1936.

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 Ceola?

Ceola had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1988
1 in 739,000
5 of 3,694,212 births
Among girls only
1 in 356,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1988
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
512,128 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ceola 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 1988 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 512,128 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ceola. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ceolas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ceola was born before 1928 — so the typical Ceola is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
335
People you could plausibly meet
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1920s — 24.9% of all recorded uses (539).

Is Ceola 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1924 (70)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#798
1906

Spellings of Ceola

Ceola is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 20.9% against Ceola's 0.13%.

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 Ceola is used

Across 1910–2025, Ceola was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 30,683 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 8,333
  2. 2Alabama1 in 11,111
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 12,500
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 50,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Ceola has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ceola around the world

Where Ceola 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.

  • Ireland
    1995–2025
    #325
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ceola by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#798
1906
Peak year
1924
70 that year
First recorded
1890
Last recorded
1988
All-time count
2,164
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,201
1936
Peak year
1936
6 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
1936
All-time count
21
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ceola

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

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Names with a curve like Ceola

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ceola, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Ceola

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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