Cicely
Recorded 1917–2025 · United States
Cicely was most popular in 1974, when 256 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,096 that year. In 2025 it ranked #13,540, with 13 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,391 people named Cicely.
Cicely over time
How old is the name Cicely?
Cicely first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1917, which makes it about 108 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 76 of the 109 years since.
How many people are named Cicely?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,391 American births named Cicely between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,249 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Cicely in 2025?
13 American babies were named Cicely in 2025, ranking #13,540 that year.
Is Cicely getting more or less popular?
Cicely is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 11 births a year across 2021–2025 against 14 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Cicely a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Cicely is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,391 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Cicely?
Roughly 2,249 Americans named Cicely are alive today — 94% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 46 years old, and half are between 33 and 51.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Cicely is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org