Cecelia

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Cecelia: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Cecelia: Recorded since 1964, its highest recorded position is #189, and it stood at #431 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
49times a registrar ranked it
61years from first to last
#189highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1522
1998	#3142
2000	#3912
2001	#3262
2003	#2436
2004	#3725
2005	#3970
2007	#2410
2008	#1815
2009	#3031
2010	#2235
2011	#2893
2012	#2969
2013	#1433
2014	#1628
2015	#1139
2016	#916
2017	#1258
2018	#886
2019	#955
2020	#853
2021	#625
2022	#562
2023	#498
2024	#463

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 23 of the 61 years from 1964 to 2024.

In 2024: #431 among girls in Scotland, #463 among girls in England and Wales, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1964–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #189 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1964–2024
Highest recorded position: #189 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1964 (recorded 1964–2024).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #463 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Cecelia appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 25 ranked years and 651 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1964.

Cecelia across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Cecelia's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#189 (1964)	#189 (1964)	#898 (2024)	23 of 61	139 (1964–2024)	16 (1964)
England and Wales · Girls	#1522 (1996)	#463 (2024)	#463 (2024)	25 of 29	651 (1996–2024)	89 (2024)

Cecelia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Cecelia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	15	2 of 10	8
2000s	52	8 of 10	7
2010s	243	10 of 10	24
2020sbusiest	341	5 of 10	68

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 68 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Cecelia appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1964 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #189 in Republic of Ireland in 1964.

Cecelia's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#463	89	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#498	79	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#562	69	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#625	62	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#853	42	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#955	37	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#886	42	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1258	27	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#916	40	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1139	30	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1628	18	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1433	22	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2893	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2235	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3031	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1815	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2436	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1522	11	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#584	6	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#411	5	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#423	5	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#483	4	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#522	3	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#518	3	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#321	8	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#300	9	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#349	7	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#352	6	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#349	6	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#252	11	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	4	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#270	8	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#228	11	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#256	8	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#325	4	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#189	16	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#431	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1964 and 2024, ranked in 44 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #189, first reached in 1964.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 89 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 9 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 9 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 60 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Cecil · #181, 38y
Cecilia · #165, 71y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Mattias · #189, 48y
Finnian · #192, 44y
Patrice · #192, 40y
Aneta · #185, 42y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Antonia · #189, 58y
Aubrey · #189, 42y
Gerardine · #189, 17y
Rosanna · #189, 60y

Cecelia was ranked #189 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1964. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Cecelia and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Cecelia without appearing here.

Cecelia moved ahead of

Denise Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2969 and #1720 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1433 and #4739.
Kerry Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2969 and #2215 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1433 and #4739.
Suzanne Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2969 and #2969 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1433 and #4739.
Vicki Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3970 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2969 and #5876.

Moved ahead of Cecelia

Alma Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2436 and #2727 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #3725 and #1535.
Olive Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1522 and #1646 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #3142 and #1259.
Audrey Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1522 and #2683 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #3142 and #1319.
Maja Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1522 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #3142 and #1571.

Moved the opposite way to Cecelia

Amelia Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Cecelia went from #189 to #898 while Amelia went from #300 to #8.
Annie Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Cecelia went from #189 to #898 while Annie went from #112 to #41.
Aoife Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Cecelia went from #189 to #898 while Aoife went from #206 to #45.
Clodagh Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Cecelia went from #189 to #898 while Clodagh went from #149 to #42.

Moved the same way as Cecelia

Alison Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Cecelia went from #189 to #898 and Alison from #146 to #275.
Amanda Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Cecelia went from #189 to #898 and Amanda from #118 to #631.
Angela Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Cecelia went from #189 to #898 and Angela from #24 to #372.
Ann Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Cecelia went from #189 to #898 and Ann from #4 to #556.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1964 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #189 in Republic of Ireland in 1964. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Cecelia

Cecelia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Cecelia across 2 official records

Cecelia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Cecelia appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Cecelia

Cecelia and the names beside it

Cecelia moved ahead of

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Cecelia at a glance

Cecelia across 2 official records

Cecelia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Cecelia appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Cecelia

Cecelia and the names beside it

Cecelia moved ahead of

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