girls:
4.1k births since 1977
#2700 (53rd percentile)
boys:
113 births since 2001
#4473 (2nd percentile)
overall:
4.2k births since 1977
#4234 (45th percentile)
The name Cielo is the #4,234 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,186 recorded births since 1977. This represents the 45.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 45.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,700 (52.8% percentile) for all time with 4,073 births since 1977. For boys, it ranks #4,473 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 113 births since 2001.
Cielo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1977 (1977 for girls and 2001 for boys). Birth data for Cielo is available in 43 out of the 47 years between 1977 and 2023 (43 years for girls and 12 years for boys). 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.
The name Cielo has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.3% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 94.5% of babies named Cielo were girls.
For girls, Cielo reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 31.3% percentile (ranked #651) with 177 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 177 births per million (ranked 31.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Cielo is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #651 (31.3% percentile) with 177 births per million.
For boys, Cielo reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #904) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Cielo ranks #898 for boys (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 73.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cielo".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Cielo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Cielo is pronounced as see-EH-loh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SEE-eh-loh, at 31.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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