Cicel
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cicel has been given to 51 babies in the U.S. since 1925. 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 1954, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Cicel, 1954
1 in 568,000
Cicel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Cicel?
Cicel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1954, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1954
- 1 in 568,000
- 7 of 3,979,464 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 291,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1954
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 394,052 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cicel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1954 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 394,052 children born in 1954 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cicel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cicels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cicel was born before 1938 — so the typical Cicel is around 87 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 33.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 66.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 12
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (17).
Is Cicel 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1954 (7)
- Years since peak
- 71
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 8.3% average annual change
Spellings of Cicel
Cicel is not the most common spelling — Cecil is, with 63.6% against Cicel's 0.03%.
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.
Cicel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cicel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cicel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.