girls:
59.4k births since 1880
#522 (91st percentile)
boys:
11 births since 1932
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
59.4k births since 1880
#967 (88th percentile)
The name Cecelia is the #967 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 59,423 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 87.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #522 (90.9% percentile) for all time with 59,412 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1932.
Cecelia has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1932 for boys).
The name Cecelia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Cecelia reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 66.7% percentile (ranked #193) with 819 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 979 births per million (ranked 50.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Cecelia ranks #443 for girls (53.3% percentile) with 351 births per million, which is 35.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Cecelia reached its peak popularity in 1932, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #529) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1943.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cecelia".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Cecilia. View all variations of Cecilia.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Cecelia", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 12 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Cecilia" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Cecilia..
Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Cecelia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.7% confident that Cecelia is pronounced as suh-SEEL-yuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sih-SEEL-yuh, at 22.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like S AH0 S IY1 L Y AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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