Cecilie
Cecilie is a girl's name that peaked in 1990, when it was the 4,003rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 10,917th. About 340 Cecilies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Cecilie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 379
- Estimated living today
- 340
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 4,003rd
- Rank in 2025
- 10,917th
- First recorded
- 1921
How old the living Cecilies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 379 babies given the name since 1921, about 340 are alive — 89 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1991 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Cecilies
- Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark (1911–1937)Greek and Danish princess
- Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1886–1954)Crown Princess of Prussia
- Cecilie Leganger (born 1975)Norwegian handball player
- Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (born 1995)Danish cyclist
- Cecilie Løveid (born 1951)Norwegian writer
- Cecilie Fiskerstrand (born 1996)Norwegian association football player
- Cecilie Skog (born 1974)Norwegian adventurer, extreme mountaineer and television personality
- Cecilie Thomsen (born 1974)Danish actress
People named Cecilie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Cecilie is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular girls’ names the year Cecilie peaked:
Cecilie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark girls | Cecilie | 14,676 | 2nd |
| Norway girls | Cecilie | 8,494 | 18th |
| France girls | Cecilie +1 spelling | 325 | 792nd |
| England and Wales girls | Cecilie | 74 | 2,504th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Cecilie among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Cecilie | 16 | 45 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Cecilie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.