Cielle
#2,698 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cielle has been given to 247 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #2,698 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 64 recorded.
Babies named Cielle, 2025
1 in 51,800
Cielle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Cielle?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 51,800
- 64 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 25,100
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,698
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 35,906 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cielle sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 35,906 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cielle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cielles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cielle was born before 2023 — so the typical Cielle is around 2 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 69.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 247
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 69.6% of all recorded uses (172).
Is Cielle 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
- +1,138
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +11,109
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +12,211
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 10.67×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (64)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.1% average annual change
Spellings of Cielle
Cielle is not the most common spelling — Giselle is, with 18.8% against Cielle's 0.09%.
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 Cielle is used
Across 1910–2025, Cielle was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 710,037 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Massachusetts1 in —
- 3Michigan1 in —
- 4Texas1 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. Cielle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cielle around the world
Where Cielle 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 & Wales2023–2025#2,788in 2025
- France2024–2024#6,052in 2024
- Canada2023–2024#2,710in 2024
- South Australia1996–2009#818in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cielle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cielle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cielle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.