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Cicily

Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Cicily has been given to 683 babies in the U.S. since 1948. 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 1974, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Cicily, 2024

1 in 371,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cicily: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cicily means

Cicily is a given name.

The naming story behind Cicily

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Cicily in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 144.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Eng. Lat. blind”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Cicily, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 683 girls were recorded with the name Cicily between 1948 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 43 in 1974; its best national rank was #1,963 in 1974.

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.

How common is Cicily?

Cicily had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 371,000
9 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 180,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
257,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cicily 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 2024 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 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cicily. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cicilys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cicily was born before 1990 — so the typical Cicily is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
29.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
678
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 29.3% of all recorded uses (200).

Is Cicily 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1974 (43)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,963
1974

Spellings of Cicily

Cicily is not the most common spelling — Cecile is, with 48.4% against Cicily's 1.6%.

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 Cicily is used

Across 1910–2025, Cicily was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 826,223 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 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. Cicily has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cicily around the world

Where Cicily 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
    2005–2014
    #5,691
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1994–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Cicily 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
#1,963
1974
Peak year
1974
43 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
683
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cicily

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

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Sibling names for Cicily

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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