Ceil
In mathematics, the floor function is the function that takes a real number x as input and returns the greatest integer less than or equal to x, written ⌊x⌋ or floor(x). Similarly, the ceiling function returns the least integer greater than or equal to x, written ⌈x⌉ or ceil(x).
Meaning & Origin of Ceil
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
In mathematics, the floor function is the function that takes a real number x as input and returns the greatest integer less than or equal to x, written ⌊x⌋ or floor(x). Similarly, the ceiling function returns the least integer greater than or equal to x, written ⌈x⌉ or ceil(x).
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The Story of Ceil
Ceil first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1894, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1915: 31 births, good for #1,258 nationwide. About 28% of every Ceil on record arrived during the 1910s, its defining decade. Ceil last appeared in the published SSA data in 1965, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 783 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1890s to the 2020s.
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About the name Ceil
Ceil is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1894 and has accumulated 783 births in the dataset. Ceil's peak popularity came in 1915 when it ranked #1,258. Use the chart and map above to compare Ceil's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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