Cicely
- #7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- Around 1972: Cicely Tyson in Sounder (film)
- Peak · girls
- 1974 · 256 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,391since 1917
Cicely over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Cicely has never cracked the top 600 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 |
| 2013 | #5,143 | 26 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 |
| 2010 | #6,382 | 20 |
| 2009 | #7,679 | 16 |
| 2008 | #8,965 | 13 |
| 2007 | #6,552 | 20 |
| 2006 | #5,906 | 22 |
| 2005 | #5,266 | 24 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 |
| 2003 | #6,576 | 17 |
| 2002 | #4,381 | 28 |
| 2001 | #5,822 | 19 |
| 2000 | #4,400 | 27 |
| 1999 | #3,970 | 29 |
| 1998 | #3,730 | 31 |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 |
| 1995 | #3,220 | 35 |
| 1994 | #5,445 | 17 |
| 1993 | #3,351 | 33 |
| 1992 | #3,218 | 35 |
| 1991 | #4,059 | 25 |
| 1990 | #5,286 | 17 |
| 1989 | #4,121 | 23 |
| 1988 | #3,095 | 32 |
| 1987 | #3,101 | 30 |
| 1986 | #2,724 | 35 |
| 1985 | #2,860 | 32 |
| 1984 | #1,788 | 60 |
| 1983 | #1,565 | 71 |
| 1982 | #1,429 | 85 |
| 1981 | #1,455 | 83 |
| 1980 | #1,502 | 79 |
| 1979 | #1,161 | 114 |
| 1978 | #1,117 | 116 |
| 1977 | #1,031 | 129 |
| 1976 | #1,182 | 96 |
| 1975 | #1,012 | 119 |
| 1974 | #608 | 256 |
| 1973 | #702 | 212 |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
| 1970 | #4,246 | 13 |
| 1969 | #4,198 | 12 |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 |
| 1966 | #4,198 | 10 |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
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| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 |
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| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 |
| 1944 | #3,687 | 7 |
| 1943 | — | |
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| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 |
| 1940 | — | |
| 1939 | #3,782 | 6 |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 |
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| 1926 | #4,851 | 5 |
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| 1924 | #3,144 | 10 |
| 1923 | #3,641 | 8 |
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| 1920 | #4,398 | 6 |
| 1919 | — | |
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 |
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First appearance
1917
The first year at least five girls were named Cicely! It came in at #4,594, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1919, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Cicely is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Cicely in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Brand new
- 2,981 spots since 2015 (#10,866 → #7,885)
- Biggest jump: 4,091 spots in 1973
- Biggest drop: 404 spots in 1975
Rise & fade · girls
57 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1974 at #608 (256 births)
- Births halved by 1975, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1973–1974
Share of babies · girls
1 in 5,733
- Highest: 1 in 5,733 girls born in 1974 were named Cicely (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
- 44.8% of all girls named Cicely (1,071) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 10 | #4,594 (1917) | #4,702 |
| 1920s | 29 | #3,144 (1924) | #4,009 |
| 1930s | 16 | #3,782 (1939) | #4,073 |
| 1940s | 24 | #3,687 (1944) | #4,154 |
| 1950s | 6 | #5,040 (1953) | #5,040 |
| 1960s | 52 | #4,198 (1969) | #5,538 |
| 1970s | 1,071 | #608 (1974) | #2,418 |
| 1980s | 530 | #1,429 (1982) | #2,364 |
| 1990s | 261 | #3,218 (1992) | #4,235 |
| 2000s | 200 | #4,381 (2002) | #6,338 |
| 2010s | 137 | #5,143 (2013) | #8,733 |
| 2020s | 55 | #6,691 (2021) | #9,517 |
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.
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