Ceola

Last seen for girls in 1988 at #11,798 · Last seen for boys in 1936 at #3,147
Given to girls 99.0% of the time

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Peak · girls
1906 · 21 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,164
since 1890

Ceola over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Ceola has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201955peak #793, 1906girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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First appearance
1890

The first year at least five girls were named Ceola! It came in at #1,338, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1890–1894, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Ceola is popular in 1955

No state had 5 or more girls named Ceola in 1955, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Ceola
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1988
  • Biggest jump: 288 spots in 1903 (#1,219 → #931)
  • Biggest drop: 401 spots in 1917 (#840 → #1,241)
Rise & fade · girls
16 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1890
  • Peaked 1906 at #793 (21 births)
  • Births halved by 1954, 48 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 19 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 19 yrs · run 1909–1913
Share of babies · girls
1 in 13,889
  • Highest: 1 in 13,889 girls born in 1909 were named Ceola (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 356,171 girls born in 1988 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #793 in 1906, was only 1 in 14,062 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 24.9% of all girls named Ceola (539) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s30#1,171 (1898)#1,403
1900s150#793 (1906)#1,005
1910s406#809 (1912)#955
1920s539#903 (1924)#1,033
1930s417#969 (1932)#1,135
1940s287#1,394 (1946)#1,634
1950s207#1,583 (1951)#2,515
1960s88#2,369 (1960)#4,086
1970s20#6,080 (1973)#7,450
1980s20#7,353 (1987)#9,432

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Ceola in 1955

girls
#2,341
22 births · 1 in 88,876 girls

Top girls' names in 1955

  1. #1Mary63,174
  2. #2Deborah52,318
  3. #3Linda51,300
  4. #4Debra50,563
  5. #5Susan47,418
  6. #6Patricia46,226
  7. #7Barbara33,617
  8. #8Karen33,217
  9. #9Nancy30,023
  10. #10Donna27,940
  11. #2,341Ceola22
More about 1955

girls

1,955,277 girls got a published name in 1955; 1 in 88,876 of them was named Ceola, which outranked 65.2% of the 6,732 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ceola
  1. #2,280Tommye23
  2. #2,280Troy23
  3. #2,280Wendelin23
  4. #2,341Ceola22
  5. #2,341Audra22
  6. #2,341Avery22
  7. #2,341Charlyne22
  8. #2,411Alpha21
  9. #2,411Charmayne21
  10. #2,411Christena21

Tied with 69 names at #2,341; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1954
Risers
  1. ↑ 793Athena#1,505 → #712
  2. ↑ 675Desiree#984 → #309
  3. ↑ 661Roni#1,197 → #536
  4. ↑ 630Gisele#1,444 → #814
  5. ↑ 593Carmel#1,422 → #829
Fallers
  1. ↓ 514Valinda#806 → #1,320
  2. ↓ 378Elouise#969 → #1,347
  3. ↓ 287Veda#831 → #1,118
  4. ↓ 275Drema#978 → #1,253
  5. ↓ 264Brooke#965 → #1,229

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1955 →