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Cielo

#795 in 2025Girls' name

Sky, heaven

Cielo has been given to 4,928 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #795 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 348 recorded.

Babies named Cielo, 2025

1 in 9,690

Cielo over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cielo: meaning, origin, and history

Sky, heaven

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cielo means

Cielo means “sky, heaven”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,764 girls were recorded with the name Cielo between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 348 in 2024; its best national rank was #795 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,519 in 2020 to #795 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,799 in 2015 to #795 in 2025.

In the United States, 164 boys were recorded with the name Cielo between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,903 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,762 in 2020 to #4,569 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.

How common is Cielo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,690
342 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,700
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#795
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,720 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cielo 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,720 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cielo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cielos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cielo was born before 2014 — so the typical Cielo is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,764
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2000s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (1,630).

Is Cielo 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
+13
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+724
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,004
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.95×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
98.3%
Peak was 2024 (348)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#795
2025

Spellings of Cielo

Cielo is not the most common spelling — Cleo is, with 59.9% against Cielo's 8.5%.

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 Cielo is used

Across 2016–2025, Cielo was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 2,564 girls, against 1 in 6,333 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

139 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 2,564
  2. 2California1 in 2,564
  3. 3Nevada1 in 3,704
  4. 4Texas1 in 3,846
  5. 5Washington1 in 7,692
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 9,091
  7. 7Florida1 in 10,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 10,000

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.

Cielo around the world

Where Cielo 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
    2006–2023
    #4,057
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2020–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2002–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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 Cielo

People whose public names include Cielo, 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.

Cielo by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#795
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 724
Best rank ever
#795
2025
Peak year
2024
348 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,764
Count in 2025
342

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,569
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,193
Best rank ever
#3,903
2024
Peak year
2024
28 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
164
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Cielo

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

CieraCiennaCierraCienaCielaCielCielleCiellaCiearaConsueloAngeloCierrahCiearraCierahChineloCierriaCieriaCieannaCierreHaeloCielitaCieyanaCieCieana

Names with a curve like Cielo

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

DafneAyahSoleilKeziahDarianaAriadnaJiannaRainArayaXitlaliGiuliaRaine

Sibling names for Cielo

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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