Cissy
Cissy is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Cissy
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Cissy is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Cissy
Cissy first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1946, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1971: 26 births, good for #2,736 nationwide. About 33% of every Cissy on record arrived during the 1970s, its defining decade. Cissy last appeared in the published SSA data in 1997, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 430 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1940s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Cissy
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About the name Cissy
Cissy is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1946 and has accumulated 430 births in the dataset. Cissy's peak popularity came in 1971 when it ranked #2,736. Use the chart and map above to compare Cissy'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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