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Cecila vs Cecilio

American parents have registered 2,411 Cecilios since 1880, against 804 Cecilas. Cecilio is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cecila against Cecilio, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cecila Cecilio

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 117 years in which either name was published, Cecilio for 114 years and Cecila for 3 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Cecila Cecilio
Total US births 8042,411
Most in one year 1839
Babies in 2025 under 59
Estimated living today 5801,800
Median age today 4640
Peak year 19701998
Best rank 3,435th girls2,274th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked8,243rd
First recorded 19001909
Girls / boys 804 / 00 / 2,411

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Cecilas alive today are over 46; half the Cecilios are over 40. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cecila and Cecilio.