Feminine dossier · first seen 1880

Cecile

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Cecile
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 95.8% from peak

Peak era

1918

Peak rank proxy

495

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Greatest Generation

1880Peak 19182024

Peak year

1918

Decline from peak

95.8%

2024

All-time

20,398

Cecile once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1918, when 495 girls were named Cecile.

In 2024, only 21 girls were given the name.

Down 95.8% from its peak.

All told, about 20,398 Americans have been named Cecile and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 95.8% from peak

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