Sesilia

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Sesilia has been given to 91 babies in the U.S. since 1987. 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 2001, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Sesilia, 2008

1 in 786,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sesilia: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sesilia means

Sesilia is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Sesilia is used in Faroese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 91 girls were recorded with the name Sesilia between 1987 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2001; its best national rank was #10,992 in 1987.

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 Sesilia?

Sesilia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008: 1 in 786,000; 5 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only: 1 in 378,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 544,916 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sesilia 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 2008 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 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sesilia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sesilias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sesilia was born before 2000 — so the typical Sesilia is around 25 today.

Median birth year: 2000; About 25 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 50.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 91; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 50.5% of all recorded uses (46).

Is Sesilia 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 2001 (8)
Years since peak: 24; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 9.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #10,992; 1987

Spellings of Sesilia

Sesilia is not the most common spelling — Cecilia is, with 61.2% against Sesilia's 0.05%.

Cecilia61.2%111,511
Emilia37.9%69,076
Cesilia0.43%778
Selia0.41%739
Sesilia0.05%91

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.

Sesilia 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: #10,992; 1987
Peak year: 2001; 8 that year
First recorded: 1987
Last recorded: 2008
All-time count: 91
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Sesilia

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

Vasilia Azaelia Coralia Emmilia Anahlia Otillia Aemilia Attalia Vitalia Aurellia Lucilia Marlia Lucelia Zahlia Noellia Adahlia Araylia Nadalia Idahlia Lucillia Anatalia Caelia Kordelia Kamillia

Sibling names for Sesilia

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

Magaly Nyah Lesli Nya Alysa Danae Joana Madisen

For a brother

Destin Cristobal Dallin Donavon Coby Kevon Zakary Keyon

Explore around Sesilia

Top names of 2001, Sesilia's peak year The 2000s in full Other names that peaked in 1987 Girls' names starting with S