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Ceil

Ceil reached its high-water mark in 1915 at number 1,258, and has been recorded 783 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1965. About 220 Ceils are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 71.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Ceil

By the numbers

Total US births
783
Estimated living today
220
Median age today
71
Peak year
1915
Best rank
1,258th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1894

How old the living Ceils are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 783 babies given the name since 1894, about 220 are alive — 28 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1954 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Ceil is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Ceil is most concentrated in New York (8.5×), Pennsylvania (4.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1915

The most popular girls’ names the year Ceil peaked:

All the names of 1915

Related names

Ceil against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.