How popular is the name Cecily?

Cecily ranks 1,511th among girls' names in US records, with 8,906 births since 1911. Over the past decade it accounts for 1,559.

Is Cecily a unisex name?

No. Cecily is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1989, when 490 children were given the name. It has been in use for 114 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Cecilie. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,511 of girl names

Pronounced S EH1 S IY0 L AY1 (ARPABET)

Cecily is a girls' name, and first appears in 1911. It has been given to 8,906 children — the 1,511th most common girls' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 1989, when 490 children were given it.

Cecilie is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Cecily and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Cecily?: Cecily ranks 1,511th among girls' names in US records, with 8,906 births since 1911. Over the past decade it accounts for 1,559.
Is Cecily a unisex name?: No. Cecily is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Cecily most popular?: 1989, when 490 children were given the name. It has been in use for 114 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Cecily spelled?: Cecilie. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.