girls:
20.4k births since 1880
#1020 (82nd percentile)
boys:
191 births since 1915
#4395 (4th percentile)
overall:
20.6k births since 1880
#1787 (77th percentile)
The name Cecile is the #1,787 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20,566 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 76.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,020 (82.2% percentile) for all time with 20,375 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,395 (4.1% percentile) for all time with 191 births since 1915.
Cecile has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1915 for boys).
The name Cecile has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Cecile reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 54.5% percentile (ranked #269) with 412 births per million. The name was most common in 1902, with 646 births per million (ranked 42.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Cecile ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 1.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Cecile reached its peak popularity in 1939, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #515) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1923, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1952.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cecile".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Cecile", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 7 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Cecil" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Cecil..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Cecile. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Cecile is pronounced as seh-SEEL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is suh-SEEL, at 22.5% confidence, with 2 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 EH0 S IY1 L) 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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