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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Cecelia

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#529

up +42 places

2025 births

569

up +39 births

All-time births

60,519

1% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1918
935 births
Best rank
#169
in 1884
First recorded
1880
#226 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1954
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 1918935#205Peak
  2. 1917920#201
  3. 1920890#217
  4. 1947890#249
  5. 1916883#200

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #169 in 1884 · peak births 935 in 1918

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

11 boys · 60,519 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Cecelia has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.