Cicely
The girl's name Cicely has been in the national records since 1917, with 2,391 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 7,885th. About 2,200 Cicelys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 45.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Cicely
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,391
- Estimated living today
- 2,200
- Median age today
- 45
- Peak year
- 1974
- Best rank
- 608th
- Rank in 2025
- 7,885th
- First recorded
- 1917
How old the living Cicelys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,391 babies given the name since 1917, about 2,200 are alive — 94 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1980 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Cicelys
- Cicely Tyson (1924–2021)American actress
- Cicely Saunders (1918–2005)English writer, doctor, founder of the hospice care movement, palliative care activist
- Cicely Hamilton (1872–1952)British actress and writer
- Cicely Courtneidge (1893–1980)English actress and comedian
- Cicely Mary Barker (1895–1973)British artist
People named Cicely with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Cicely is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Cicely is most concentrated in Georgia (3.2×), South Carolina (2.7×), Florida (2.3×), Louisiana (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1974
The most popular girls’ names the year Cicely peaked:
Cicely elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Cicely | 393 | 1,324th |
| Scotland girls | Cicely | 3 | 639th |
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.
Related names
Cicely against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.