Cicero

#12,396 in 2025Boys' name

Chickpea

Cicero has been given to 1,453 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #12,396 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Cicero, 2025

1 in 663,000

Cicero over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cicero: meaning, origin, and history

Chickpea

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cicero means

Cicero means “chickpea”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Cicero is used in Ancient Roman.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈki.ke.roː/ and /ˈsɪs.ə.ɹoʊ/ for Cicero.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,453 boys were recorded with the name Cicero between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 41 in 1920; its best national rank was #398 in 1881.

Over 5 years its rank held the same position, from #12,396 in 2020 to #12,396 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Cicero?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 342,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #12,396; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 459,581 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Cicero sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cicero. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ciceros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cicero was born before 1924 — so the typical Cicero is around 101 today.

Median birth year: 1924; About 101 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 18.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 2.5%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 265; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 18.7% of all recorded uses (272).

Is Cicero 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: +286; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: ±0; No change
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 12.2%; Peak was 1920 (41)
Years since peak: 105; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 6.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #398; 1881

Spellings of Cicero

Cicero is not the most common spelling — Ciro is, with 42.0% against Cicero's 23.6%.

Ciro42.0%2,587
Cicero23.6%1,453
Piero13.3%821
Cincere12.2%751
Dinero8.9%547

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 Cicero is used

Across 1910–2025, Cicero was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 117,713 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1North Carolina1 in 33,333
2Georgia1 in 50,000
3Alabama1 in —
4South Carolina1 in —
5Texas1 in —
6Virginia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Cicero has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cicero by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #12,396
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Steady
Best rank ever: #398; 1881
Peak year: 1920; 41 that year
First recorded: 1880
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 1,453
Count in 2025: 5

Names similar to Cicero

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

Severo Romero Homero Cordero Dinero Piero Sotero Lucero Hero Calogero Aero Nero Baldomero Eero Antero Omero Spero Libero Cicel Zero Denero Ero Montero Genero

Sibling names for Cicero

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Vina Idella Mozelle Adell Beryl Iola Garnet Kattie

For a brother

Dewitt Granville Vern Barney Delmer Buford Eldridge Trinidad

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