girls:
8.4k births since 1911
#1778 (69th percentile)
overall:
8.4k births since 1911
#2946 (62nd percentile)
The name Cecily is the #2,946 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,401 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 61.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,778 (68.9% percentile) for all time with 8,401 births since 1911.
Cecily first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (first recorded for girls in 1911). Birth data for Cecily is available in 108 out of the 113 years between 1911 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Cecily reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 47.3% percentile (ranked #435) with 237 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 237 births per million (ranked 47.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Cecily ranks #842 for girls (11.1% percentile) with 63 births per million, which is 26.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cecily".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Cecily. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.6% confident that Cecily is pronounced as SEH-suh-lee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SEH-sih-lee, at 21.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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