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How popular is “Cecil” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cecil” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Cecil” 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 “Cecil” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Cecil” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cecil” 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 59 0.000292827 14 45 -53%
1881 51 0.000264677 16 35 -37%
1882 77 0.000347578 24 53 -38%
1883 74 0.000341099 23 51 -38%
1884 95 0.000390206 22 73 -54%
1885 118 0.000489923 31 87 -47%
1886 117 0.000458256 34 83 -42%
1887 120 0.00048506 40 80 -33%
1888 132 0.000440773 36 96 -45%
1889 157 0.000543354 55 102 -30%
1890 178 0.000590575 58 120 -35%
1891 158 0.000551151 50 108 -37%
1892 221 0.000660937 70 151 -37%
1893 259 0.000796377 112 147 -14%
1894 255 0.000752901 80 175 -37%
1895 287 0.000817617 95 192 -34%
1896 308 0.000861577 108 200 -30%
1897 354 0.001020299 138 216 -22%
1898 376 0.000985699 133 243 -29%
1899 373 0.001099536 117 256 -37%
1900 473 0.001050509 129 344 -45%
1901 406 0.001174048 128 278 -37%
1902 466 0.001204966 112 354 -52%
1903 435 0.001141133 103 332 -53%
1904 489 0.001211941 130 359 -47%
1905 464 0.001094541 117 347 -50%
1906 477 0.001113313 109 368 -54%
1907 526 0.001130235 127 399 -52%
1908 511 0.00104574 114 397 -55%
1909 545 0.001066069 113 432 -59%
1910 602 0.001019111 130 472 -57%
1911 676 0.001049237 116 560 -66%
1912 1193 0.001207414 135 1058 -77%
1913 1438 0.001264609 162 1276 -77%
1914 1723 0.001216512 193 1530 -78%
1915 2381 0.00129937 200 2181 -83%
1916 2422 0.001252057 241 2181 -80%
1917 2298 0.001145135 197 2101 -83%
1918 2566 0.001181883 238 2328 -81%
1919 2500 0.001184697 200 2300 -84%
1920 2672 0.00118092 213 2459 -84%
1921 2608 0.001117153 152 2456 -88%
1922 2510 0.001096474 174 2336 -86%
1923 2401 0.001042788 146 2255 -88%
1924 2473 0.001038373 174 2299 -86%
1925 2449 0.001049586 152 2297 -88%
1926 2451 0.001067553 146 2305 -88%
1927 2344 0.001010624 117 2227 -90%
1928 2101 0.00092926 96 2005 -91%
1929 1994 0.000909605 105 1889 -89%
1930 1975 0.000888324 93 1882 -91%
1931 1848 0.000878165 79 1769 -91%
1932 1728 0.000818457 73 1655 -92%
1933 1574 0.000787218 68 1506 -91%
1934 1667 0.000802671 71 1596 -91%
1935 1792 0.000857457 66 1726 -93%
1936 1661 0.000799489 84 1577 -90%
1937 1726 0.000810074 91 1635 -89%
1938 1635 0.000738958 77 1558 -91%
1939 1647 0.000747467 69 1578 -92%
1940 1663 0.0007222 74 1589 -91%
1941 1587 0.000651364 75 1512 -91%
1942 1687 0.000617537 67 1620 -92%
1943 1764 0.000624965 67 1697 -92%
1944 1556 0.000578422 57 1499 -93%
1945 1404 0.00052923 49 1355 -93%
1946 1460 0.00045692 56 1404 -92%
1947 1485 0.000412234 42 1443 -94%
1948 1431 0.00041448 31 1400 -96%
1949 1355 0.000388834 37 1318 -95%
1950 1378 0.000393337 37 1341 -95%
1951 1355 0.000367833 32 1323 -95%
1952 1357 0.000357293 30 1327 -96%
1953 1278 0.000331634 24 1254 -96%
1954 1330 0.000334111 32 1298 -95%
1955 1265 0.000315062 37 1228 -94%
1956 1163 0.000282074 22 1141 -96%
1957 1096 0.000260819 23 1073 -96%
1958 1035 0.000250369 25 1010 -95%
1959 1031 0.000247956 22 1009 -96%
1960 978 0.000235446 19 959 -96%
1961 990 0.000238998 19 971 -96%
1962 902 0.000223523 20 882 -96%
1963 830 0.000209691 7 823 -98%
1964 744 0.000191377 13 731 -97%
1965 736 0.000203009 10 726 -97%
1966 690 0.000198524 12 678 -97%
1967 555 0.000163481 12 543 -96%
1968 573 0.000169606 9 564 -97%
1969 562 0.000161712 10 552 -96%
1970 573 0.000158879 7 566 -98%
1971 548 0.000159657 12 536 -96%
1972 485 0.000154311 10 475 -96%
1973 419 0.000138885 5 414 -98%
1974 431 0.000141776 12 419 -94%
1975 353 0.000116911 5 348 -97%
1976 351 0.000115677 351 -100%
1977 380 0.000119629 11 369 -94%
1978 359 0.000113111 7 352 -96%
1979 356 0.000107003 5 351 -97%
1980 419 0.000121643 12 407 -94%
1981 329 0.000095104 9 320 -95%
1982 305 0.000086945 9 296 -94%
1983 318 0.000091819 9 309 -94%
1984 309 0.00008857 10 299 -94%
1985 273 0.00007649 7 266 -95%
1986 285 0.000080122 9 276 -94%
1987 257 0.000071278 7 250 -95%
1988 278 0.000075236 8 270 -94%
1989 249 0.000064769 12 237 -90%
1990 236 0.000059709 5 231 -96%
1991 217 0.000055709 217 -100%
1992 194 0.000050504 194 -100%
1993 205 0.000054373 9 196 -91%
1994 169 0.000045459 7 162 -92%
1995 152 0.000041506 5 147 -93%
1996 153 0.00004195 153 -100%
1997 135 0.000037234 135 -100%
1998 132 0.000035887 132 -100%
1999 133 0.000036006 133 -100%
2000 130 0.000034392 130 -100%
2001 127 0.000033926 6 121 -91%
2002 106 0.000028355 106 -100%
2003 109 0.000028667 8 101 -85%
2004 105 0.00002748 5 100 -90%
2005 108 0.00002809 108 -100%
2006 107 0.000027046 107 -100%
2007 111 0.000027766 111 -100%
2008 122 0.000031038 122 -100%
2009 88 0.000023036 88 -100%
2010 78 0.000021105 78 -100%
2011 91 0.000024878 91 -100%
2012 97 0.000026522 97 -100%
2013 114 0.00003127 114 -100%
2014 99 0.000026711 99 -100%
2015 119 0.000032154 5 114 -92%
2016 103 0.000028075 103 -100%
2017 103 0.000028802 103 -100%
2018 113 0.00003214 113 -100%
2019 98 0.000028234 98 -100%
2020 97 0.000029037 97 -100%
2021 114 0.000033649 114 -100%
2022 119 0.000035174 5 114 -92%
2023 115 0.000034731 115 -100%
2024 122 0.000036653 122 -100%

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