Cecil Boy Name

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The name Cecil is of Latin origin, and means blind. The table below indicates the number of times the name Cecil has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Cecil**
Use of the Name Cecil for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
103,791	21,397	4,361	434	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Cecil has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Cecil last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1997, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Cecil**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	248	45	453	14
1881	269	35	420	16
1882	225	53	362	24
1883	212	51	386	23
1884	186	73	426	22
1885	154	87	365	31
1886	168	83	365	34
1887	155	80	339	40
1888	158	96	415	36
1889	142	102	335	55
1890	121	120	332	58
1891	126	108	351	50
1892	115	151	323	70
1893	114	147	250	112
1894	102	175	310	80
1895	100	192	293	95
1896	97	200	277	108
1897	84	216	240	138
1898	87	243	258	133
1899	77	256	263	117
1900	76	344	289	129
1901	70	278	255	128
1902	65	354	298	112
1903	66	332	308	103
1904	67	359	276	130
1905	72	347	311	116
1906	68	368	320	109
1907	69	399	308	127
1908	72	397	334	114
1909	72	432	339	112
1910	77	469	346	130
1911	76	558	375	116
1912	76	1,058	396	135
1913	74	1,277	380	162
1914	79	1,529	382	193
1915	76	2,183	429	200
1916	79	2,185	405	240
1917	83	2,094	459	198
1918	82	2,328	429	238
1919	78	2,302	470	200
1920	77	2,456	463	213
1921	79	2,457	586	152
1922	85	2,330	537	173
1923	87	2,265	597	148
1924	85	2,303	558	171
1925	87	2,285	584	152
1926	87	2,298	580	148
1927	92	2,223	674	115
1928	97	2,006	717	98
1929	101	1,881	687	104
1930	99	1,876	726	93
1931	102	1,770	750	79
1932	108	1,652	799	73
1933	111	1,500	806	68
1934	111	1,586	795	71
1935	110	1,727	855	65
1936	114	1,575	724	84
1937	114	1,629	713	91
1938	118	1,556	803	77
1939	114	1,583	838	69
1940	117	1,588	825	74
1941	132	1,511	830	76
1942	131	1,619	963	66
1943	132	1,687	965	67
1944	141	1,497
1945	154	1,346
1946	159	1,400
1947	164	1,438
1948	167	1,392
1949	172	1,316
1950	171	1,340
1951	182	1,306
1952	185	1,334
1953	195	1,251
1954	194	1,305
1955	206	1,216
1956	215	1,146
1957	233	1,056
1958	249	1,006
1959	250	1,010
1960	256	958
1961	251	968
1962	258	884
1963	267	821
1964	290	728
1965	275	730
1966	283	678
1967	321	539
1968	320	565
1969	329	552
1970	338	561
1971	345	534
1972	354	477
1973	377	414
1974	372	422
1975	414	350
1976	412	351
1977	409	368
1978	415	352
1979	426	350
1980	401	407
1981	464	320
1982	493	296
1983	480	310
1984	486	295
1985	531	266
1986	532	276
1987	575	249
1988	563	270
1989	649	238
1990	663	231
1991	686	217
1992	743	193
1993	741	197
1994	836	162
1995	914	146
1996	884	154
1997	973	134
Totals:		103,791		6,775

During the last 125 years, parents have used Cecil as a boy's name about 93% of the time and less frequently (about 6% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Cecil appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 118 times during the last 125 years.

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