# Cece (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cece/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 536 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 536 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 460, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 17,308 |
| 2012 | 8 | 12,448 |
| 2013 | 8 | 12,224 |
| 2014 | 20 | 6,248 |
| 2015 | 11 | 9,612 |
| 2016 | 14 | 8,076 |
| 2017 | 12 | 8,909 |
| 2018 | 15 | 7,473 |
| 2019 | 16 | 7,093 |
| 2020 | 14 | 7,639 |
| 2021 | 22 | 5,606 |
| 2022 | 17 | 6,775 |
| 2023 | 15 | 7,328 |
| 2024 | 19 | 6,216 |
| 2025 | 17 | 6,594 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 4,049 |
| 2012 | 7 | 3,285 |
| 2013 | 18 | 1,639 |
| 2014 | 17 | 1,702 |
| 2015 | 18 | 1,649 |
| 2016 | 24 | 1,370 |
| 2017 | 28 | 1,219 |
| 2018 | 25 | 1,314 |
| 2019 | 25 | 1,292 |
| 2020 | 30 | 1,100 |
| 2021 | 54 | 699 |
| 2022 | 54 | 683 |
| 2023 | 48 | 742 |
| 2024 | 50 | 751 |
| 2025 | 44 | 816 |

## People named Cece

- CeCe Peniston, American singer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.