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Cieara vs Cielo

American parents have registered 4,928 Cielos since 1880, against 528 Ciearas. Cielo is still ahead, with 364 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cieara against Cielo, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cieara Cielo

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 47 years in which either name was published, Cielo for 35 years and Cieara for 12 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Cieara Cielo
Total US births 5284,928
Most in one year 37376
Babies in 2025 under 5364
Estimated living today 5204,900
Median age today 3311
Peak year 19912024
Best rank 3,036th girls807th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked795th
First recorded 19821977
Girls / boys 528 / 04,764 / 164

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ciearas alive today are over 33; half the Cielos are over 11. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cieara and Cielo.