Ceil

Where Ceil comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Ceil.

Ceil through the years
  1. 1894
    First appearance
    #1,485 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1905
    Peak, #848
    19 babies named Ceil, its best rank.
  3. 1912
    Ceil Chapman born
    American fashion designer
  4. 1921
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #3,400.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Ceil Chapman · American fashion designer, 1912–1979

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.