Cicely

girls:

2.4k births since 1917

#3557 (38th percentile)

overall:

2.4k births since 1917

#5449 (30th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cicely".

1917 2023 19172023

Key Statistics

Total Births
2,371
Peak Births
256
Peak Year
1974
First Recorded
1917
Peak Percentile
32.6%
Current Percentile
0.3%
Peak Rank
#503
Current Rank
#944
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Cicely

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Cicely. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 81.6% confident that Cicely is pronounced as SIH-suh-lee. The next most likely pronunciation is SIH-slee, at 18.4% confidence.

SIH-suh-lee (3 syllables)
Verified
81.6% confidence
S IH1 S AH0 L IY0
SIH-slee (2 syllables)
18.4% confidence
S IH1 S L IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Cicely. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Cicely, please vote using the thumbs up button.

SIH-sih-lee (3 syllables)
4 names 2.1k births
S IH1 S IH0 L IY0
SIH-see-lee (3 syllables)
2 names 680 births
S IH1 S IY0 L IY0

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

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 IH1 S AH0 L IY0) 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.