Cissy

Girls' name

Possibly blind, through Cicely

Cissy has been given to 430 babies in the U.S. since 1946. 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 1971, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Cissy, 1997

1 in 604,000

Cissy over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cissy: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly blind, through Cicely

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cissy means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Cissy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cicely, Cecily and Cecilia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 430 girls were recorded with the name Cissy between 1946 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1971; its best national rank was #2,746 in 1971.

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 Cissy?

Cissy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1997: 1 in 604,000; 6 of 3,624,676 births
Among girls only: 1 in 290,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1997: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 418,740 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Cissy 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 1997 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 418,740 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cissy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cissys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cissy was born before 1969 — so the typical Cissy is around 56 today.

Median birth year: 1969; About 56 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 33.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 36.5%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 418; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 33.5% of all recorded uses (144).

Is Cissy 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1971 (26)
Years since peak: 54; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 29.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,746; 1971

Spellings of Cissy

Cissy is not the most common spelling — Cindy is, with 55.5% against Cissy's 0.09%.

Cindy55.5%257,294
Misty18.2%84,654
Casey16.8%78,100
Cristy1.8%8,200
Missy1.2%5,776
Chrissy0.96%4,459
Lissa0.86%3,979
Crissy0.56%2,592

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.

Cissy around the world

Where Cissy 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
2006–2021
#5,581
in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Cissy 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: #2,746; 1971
Peak year: 1971; 26 that year
First recorded: 1946
Last recorded: 1997
All-time count: 430
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Cissy

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

Bessy Rossy Zissy Pessy Bassy Cisne Lissy Jessy Sissy Kassy Tessy Krissy Kissy Nissy Missy Cassy Tressy Daissy Sossy Keissy Sussy Hennessy Deissy Henessy

Sibling names for Cissy

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

Trena Darcie Michell Tressa Kerrie Nicola Latonia Tisha

For a brother

Shon Darrick Judd Douglass Alfonzo Scottie Erich Edwardo

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