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Sissy

Girls' name

Possibly blind, through Cecilia

Sissy has been given to 710 babies in the U.S. since 1944. 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 1981, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Sissy, 2013

1 in 608,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sissy: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly blind, through Cecilia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sissy means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Sissy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cecilia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 710 girls were recorded with the name Sissy between 1944 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1981; its best national rank was #2,309 in 1958.

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 Sissy?

Sissy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 608,000
6 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,196 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sissy 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 2013 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 421,196 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sissy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sissys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sissy was born before 1979 — so the typical Sissy is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
22.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
697
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1980s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (158).

Is Sissy 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1981 (27)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,309
1958

Spellings of Sissy

Sissy is not the most common spelling — Misty is, with 73.3% against Sissy's 0.61%.

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 Sissy is used

Across 1910–2025, Sissy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 832,167 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Sissy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sissy around the world

Where Sissy 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
    2002–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010
  • France
    2005–2005
    #5,290
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1951–1989
    #483
    in 1989

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sissy 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
#2,309
1958
Peak year
1981
27 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
710
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sissy

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

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Sibling names for Sissy

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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