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Cicely

#7,973 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly blind, through Cecily

Cicely has been given to 2,391 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #7,973 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1974, with 256 recorded.

Babies named Cicely, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cicely: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly blind, through Cecily

Latin

What Cicely means

Cicely belongs to the name family reached through Cicely → Cecily → Cecilia. Its meaning is “blind”.

Origin, language, and formation

Cicely is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cecily and Cecilia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,391 girls were recorded with the name Cicely between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 256 in 1974; its best national rank was #608 in 1974.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,090 in 2015 to #7,973 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cicely?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,973
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cicely 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cicely. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cicelys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cicely was born before 1979 — so the typical Cicely is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
44.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,312
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 44.8% of all recorded uses (1,071).

Is Cicely 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
+4,460
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,117
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.44×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.1%
Peak was 1974 (256)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#608
1974

Spellings of Cicely

Cicely is not the most common spelling — Cecily is, with 44.6% against Cicely's 12.3%.

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 Cicely is used

Across 1910–2025, Cicely was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 135,657 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 50,000
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 50,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 100,000

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. Cicely has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cicely around the world

Where Cicely 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
    1996–2025
    #2,006
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1995–1995
    #639
    in 1995
  • Canada
    1992–1999
    #2,493
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1985–1985
    #671
    in 1985

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Cicely

People whose public names include Cicely, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Cicely in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Cicely. Linked forms have their own page here.

Cecily

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Cicely by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,973
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#608
1974
Peak year
1974
256 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,391
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Cicely

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

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Names with a curve like Cicely

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

QianaJanuaryCarisaCrissyKeeshaLatrinaTamicaMistieTomikaNicholTennilleTakisha

Sibling names for Cicely

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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