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How popular is “Cecelia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cecelia” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Cecelia” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Cecelia” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Cecelia” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Cecelia” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Cecelia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cecelia” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 47 0.000233269 47 100%
1881 51 0.000264677 51 100%
1882 55 0.00024827 55 100%
1883 67 0.000308833 67 100%
1884 109 0.00044771 109 100%
1885 84 0.000348759 84 100%
1886 96 0.000376005 96 100%
1887 92 0.000371879 92 100%
1888 113 0.000377328 113 100%
1889 138 0.000477598 138 100%
1890 130 0.000431319 130 100%
1891 130 0.000453478 130 100%
1892 175 0.000523366 175 100%
1893 182 0.000559616 182 100%
1894 159 0.000469456 159 100%
1895 163 0.000464361 163 100%
1896 190 0.000531492 190 100%
1897 212 0.000611027 212 100%
1898 229 0.000600333 229 100%
1899 214 0.000630833 214 100%
1900 264 0.00058633 264 100%
1901 249 0.000720044 249 100%
1902 243 0.00062834 243 100%
1903 242 0.000634837 242 100%
1904 272 0.000674127 272 100%
1905 293 0.000691165 293 100%
1906 290 0.000676857 290 100%
1907 321 0.000689744 321 100%
1908 325 0.000665099 325 100%
1909 294 0.00057509 294 100%
1910 335 0.000567113 335 100%
1911 416 0.000645684 416 100%
1912 513 0.000519198 513 100%
1913 536 0.00047137 536 100%
1914 679 0.000479403 679 100%
1915 821 0.00044804 821 100%
1916 883 0.000456468 883 100%
1917 920 0.000458453 920 100%
1918 935 0.000430655 935 100%
1919 867 0.000410853 867 100%
1920 890 0.000393345 890 100%
1921 825 0.000353394 825 100%
1922 760 0.000332 760 100%
1923 786 0.000341371 786 100%
1924 742 0.000311554 742 100%
1925 721 0.000309004 721 100%
1926 685 0.000298357 685 100%
1927 622 0.000268178 622 100%
1928 579 0.000256088 579 100%
1929 559 0.000255 559 100%
1930 526 0.000236587 526 100%
1931 453 0.000215264 453 100%
1932 440 0.000208403 434 6 97%
1933 403 0.000201556 403 100%
1934 374 0.000180083 374 100%
1935 409 0.000195703 409 100%
1936 471 0.000226706 471 100%
1937 474 0.000222465 474 100%
1938 514 0.000232309 514 100%
1939 534 0.000242348 534 100%
1940 567 0.000246234 567 100%
1941 609 0.000249956 609 100%
1942 836 0.000306023 836 100%
1943 787 0.000278825 782 5 99%
1944 645 0.00023977 645 100%
1945 628 0.000236721 628 100%
1946 712 0.000222827 712 100%
1947 890 0.000247063 890 100%
1948 843 0.00024417 843 100%
1949 851 0.000244205 851 100%
1950 768 0.000219218 768 100%
1951 761 0.000206584 761 100%
1952 713 0.00018773 713 100%
1953 691 0.000179311 691 100%
1954 679 0.000170573 679 100%
1955 655 0.000163135 655 100%
1956 666 0.000161531 666 100%
1957 681 0.00016206 681 100%
1958 614 0.000148528 614 100%
1959 670 0.000161135 670 100%
1960 559 0.000134575 559 100%
1961 565 0.000136398 565 100%
1962 523 0.000129604 523 100%
1963 470 0.000118741 470 100%
1964 374 0.000096203 374 100%
1965 330 0.000091023 330 100%
1966 286 0.000082287 286 100%
1967 272 0.00008012 272 100%
1968 269 0.000079623 269 100%
1969 209 0.000060138 209 100%
1970 309 0.000085678 309 100%
1971 249 0.000072545 249 100%
1972 212 0.000067452 212 100%
1973 192 0.000063642 192 100%
1974 165 0.000054276 165 100%
1975 167 0.000055309 167 100%
1976 135 0.000044491 135 100%
1977 130 0.000040926 130 100%
1978 127 0.000040014 127 100%
1979 151 0.000045386 151 100%
1980 161 0.000046741 161 100%
1981 153 0.000044228 153 100%
1982 168 0.000047891 168 100%
1983 187 0.000053994 187 100%
1984 177 0.000050734 177 100%
1985 180 0.000050433 180 100%
1986 173 0.000048635 173 100%
1987 211 0.00005852 211 100%
1988 215 0.000058186 215 100%
1989 200 0.000052023 200 100%
1990 231 0.000058444 231 100%
1991 212 0.000054425 212 100%
1992 206 0.000053628 206 100%
1993 246 0.000065247 246 100%
1994 232 0.000062405 232 100%
1995 248 0.00006772 248 100%
1996 284 0.000077868 284 100%
1997 232 0.000063987 232 100%
1998 264 0.000071774 264 100%
1999 291 0.000078779 291 100%
2000 296 0.000078309 296 100%
2001 313 0.000083614 313 100%
2002 328 0.000087741 328 100%
2003 341 0.000089682 341 100%
2004 386 0.000101023 386 100%
2005 420 0.000109237 420 100%
2006 423 0.000106921 423 100%
2007 367 0.000091803 367 100%
2008 387 0.000098457 387 100%
2009 393 0.000102875 393 100%
2010 377 0.000102009 377 100%
2011 434 0.000118651 434 100%
2012 484 0.000132336 484 100%
2013 535 0.00014675 535 100%
2014 535 0.000144346 535 100%
2015 572 0.000154557 572 100%
2016 579 0.000157822 579 100%
2017 585 0.000163582 585 100%
2018 512 0.000145624 512 100%
2019 557 0.000160476 557 100%
2020 511 0.000152968 511 100%
2021 548 0.00016175 548 100%
2022 599 0.000177055 599 100%
2023 616 0.000186035 616 100%
2024 529 0.00015893 529 100%

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