Cecily

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Cecily: Recorded since 1964, with a gap of 26 years, its highest recorded position is #297, and it stood at #625 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
61years from first to last
#297highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Cecily's record

Absent from every published list for 26 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#974
1997	#983
1998	#1122
1999	#864
2000	#782
2001	#936
2002	#998
2003	#1325
2004	#1383
2005	#916
2006	#835
2007	#963
2008	#722
2009	#795
2010	#821
2011	#817
2012	#679
2013	#663
2014	#589
2015	#637
2016	#585
2017	#753
2018	#745
2019	#651
2020	#720
2021	#709
2022	#706
2023	#677
2024	#625

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 5 of the 59 years from 1964 to 2022.

In 2022: #706 among girls in England and Wales, #905 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1964–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #372 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 recorded1964–2022
Highest recorded position: #297 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1965 (recorded 1964–2022).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #625 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Cecily appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 1,235 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1964.

Cecily 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.

Cecily'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	#372 (1964)	#297 (1965)	#905 (2022)	5 of 59	19 (1964–2022)	5 (1965)
England and Wales · Girls	#974 (1996)	#585 (2016)	#625 (2024)	29 of 29	1,235 (1996–2024)	72 (2016)

Cecily 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 Cecily in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	85	4 of 10	21
2000s	296	10 of 10	30
2010sbusiest	583	10 of 10	58
2020s	271	5 of 10	54

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 58 births a year.

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

Cecily 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 2 regions, from 1964 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #297 in Republic of Ireland in 1965.

Cecily'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	#625	62	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#677	53	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#706	52	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#709	53	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#720	51	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#651	60	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#745	53	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#753	53	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#585	72	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#637	65	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#589	70	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#663	60	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#679	61	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#817	45	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#821	44	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#795	44	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#722	49	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#963	31	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#835	36	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#916	30	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1383	16	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1325	16	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#998	22	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#936	23	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#782	29	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#864	25	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1122	18	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#983	21	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#974	21	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#351	5	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#380	3	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#297	5	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#372	3	High	Verified

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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1964 and 2024, ranked in 33 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #297, first reached in 1965.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 72 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 26 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 32 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.

Cecilia · #165, 71y
Cecilie · #17, 79y
Cedar · #2259, 10y
Cedric · #825, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Katriona · #297, 37y
Sameer · #297, 29y
Anthea · #296, 34y
Haroon · #298, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

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

Katriona · #297, 37y
Yasin · #297, 51y
Youssef · #297, 40y
Anthea · #296, 34y

Cecily was ranked #297 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1965. 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.

Cecily 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 Cecily without appearing here.

Cecily moved ahead of

Lorraine Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1383 and #1312 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #916 and #2438.
Bernadette Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1383 and #1209 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #916 and #1934.
Judith Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1383 and #1383 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #916 and #1796.
Suzanne Compare
In 2005 they stood at #916 and #745 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #835 and #1585.

Moved ahead of Cecily

Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #817 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #679 and #284.
Maja Compare
In 2005 they stood at #916 and #951 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #835 and #456.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #651 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #720 and #460.
Blake Compare
In 2016 they stood at #585 and #768 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #753 and #499.

Moved the same way as Cecily

Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cecily went from #1383 to #625 and Eabha from #4598 to #1262.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
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 2 regions, from 1964 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #297 in Republic of Ireland in 1965. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Cecily

Cecily at a glance

What stands out in Cecily's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Cecily across 2 official records

Cecily by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Cecily appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

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Cecily at a glance

What stands out in Cecily's record

Cecily across 2 official records

Cecily by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Cecily 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 Cecily

Cecily and the names beside it

Cecily moved ahead of

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