Sissy

Where Sissy comes from

The dictionaries list Sissy as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Cecilia — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1944
    First appearance
    #4,054 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1958
    Peak, #2,260
    25 babies named Sissy — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #6,564.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Cecilia.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Sissy hasn't yet.

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.