How popular is the baby name Cecilia in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Cecilia.
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The name Lajeune appeared in the U.S. baby name data for three years straight at the start of the 1960s:
1963: unlisted
1962: 5 baby girls named Lajeune
1961: 7 baby girls named Lajeune
1960: 17 baby girls named Lajeune
1959: unlisted
The source?
African-American model La Jeune Hundley of Virginia. In May of 1960, she was voted “Miss Festival” at the Cannes Film Festival in France. During the last half of the year, she was featured heavily in African-American magazines and newspapers. For instance, she was on covers of Sepia in September, Ebony in October, and Jet in November.
Notably, she was the second African-American woman to win the title. The year before, Cecilia Cooper of New York City was the winner. At the time, black women were still not welcome in most American beauty pageants. (Clearly they could win equivalent titles overseas, though.)
In 1962, La Jeune was one of the woman pictured in Life magazine alongside a short article about black models becoming more visible in high fashion.
Her name may have been inspired on the French surname Le Jeune, which means “the young” or “the younger.”
If you’re on the hunt for baby names with a numerological value of 6, you’re in luck! Because today’s post features hundreds of 6-names.
Before we get to the names, though — how do we know that they’re “sixes” in numerology?
Turning names into numbers
Here’s how to calculate the numerological value of a name.
First, for each letter, come up with a number to represent that letter’s position in the alphabet. (Letter A would be number 1, letter B would be number 2, and so forth.) Then, add all the numbers together. If the sum has two or more digits, add the digits together recursively until the result is a single digit. That single digit is the name’s numerological value.
For instance, the letters in the name Weston correspond to the numbers 23, 5, 19, 20, 15, and 14. The sum of these numbers is 96. The digits of 96 added together equal 15, and the digits of 15 added together equal 6 — the numerological value of Weston.
Baby names with a value of 6
Below you’ll find the most popular 6-names per gender, according to the latest U.S. baby name data. I’ve further sub-categorized them by total sums — just in case any of those larger numbers are significant to anyone.
6
The letters in the following baby names add up to 6.
Girl name (6)
Boy names (6)
Ada
Abba, Baba
6 via 15
The letters in the following baby names add up to 15, which reduces to six (1+5=6).
Girl names (6 via 15)
Boy names (6 via 15)
Aida, Alaa, Adia, An, Ama
Jad, Aadi, Gabe, An, Ej
6 via 24
The letters in the following baby names add up to 24, which reduces to six (2+4=6).
There’s no definitive answer, unfortunately, because various numerological systems exist, and each one has its own interpretation of the number six. That said, if we look at a couple of modern numerology/astrology websites, we see 6 being described as “harmonious,” “loving,” “stable,” “compassionate,” and “responsible.”
We can also look at associations, which are a bit more concrete. Here are some things that are associated with the number 6:
Snowflake (six-fold symmetry)
Beehive (six-sided cells)
Guitar (6 strings)
Football (6 points for a touchdown)
Ice hockey (6 players per side, including the goalie)
Cube (six faces)
Six degrees of separation (the idea that all people are six or fewer social connections away from one other)
What does the number 6 mean to you? What are your strongest associations with the number?
P.S. To see names with other numerological values, check out the posts for the numbers one, two, three, four, five, seven, eight, and nine.
Emma, the former #1 girl name, dropped to 6th place last year. Alma, on the other hand, jumped from 11th to 4th and replaced Karla in the top 10.
On the boys’ side, Carl and Alfred (which jumped from 17th to 9th) replaced Frederik and Magnus.
In the top 50, the girl names Gry, Naya, and Silje replaced Alba, Naja, and Malou, and the boy names Jakob, Lauge, Milas, Silas, Theo, Thor, and Viggo replaced Andreas, Bertram, Daniel, Jacob, Jonas, Nikolaj, and Sander.
(Gry means “dawn” in Danish and Norwegian, Silje is a diminutive of Cecilia, and Lauge is based on the Old Norse byname Félagi, meaning “fellow, partner, mate.”)
Here’s a rare, old-fashioned name that’s been given two distinct pop culture boosts over the years — one from the movies, one from the weather.
The movie connection is especially interesting because, as far as I can tell, this is probably the first name to debut on the charts thanks to an actress.
Usage of the name Francelia (pronounced fran-SEE-lee-ah) goes back to at least the 1700s. The name was most popular in the mid-1800s, especially in the Northeastern U.S. (New York state in particular). It seems to be an elaborated form of Frances (“Frenchman”) influenced by either Celia (“sky, heaven”) or Cecilia (“blind”), or both.
Francelia debuted on the SSA’s baby name list in 1912, probably thanks to early silent film actress Francelia Billington, who was born in Texas in 1895 and appeared in silent films from 1912 until the mid-1920s (and in a single talkie in 1930).
Francelia Billington wasn’t the first silent film actress to become famous, but she was the first whose name debuted on the national baby name list while she was famous. Several other silent film actresses of the 1910s also had distinctive names (e.g., Alla Nazimova, Theda Bara, Kathlyn Williams) but their names had all been listed since the late 1800s.
The SSA data from the 1910s isn’t super-reliable, so I’ve put the U.S. baby name data and the Social Security Death Index data side-by-side below. For the SSDI numbers, I only counted people who had Francelia as a first name, not as a middle.
Girls named Francelia (SSA)
People named Francelia (SSDI)
1915
6
5
1914
.
5
1913
10
10
1912
5*
10
1911
.
2
1910
.
4
1909
.
5
*Debut
One of the Francelias above was children’s literature scholar/writer Francelia Butler (née McWilliams), who was born in Ohio in 1913.
The name Francelia has remained rare in the U.S. ever since, though it did see a spike in usage in 1969 thanks to the news of Hurricane Francelia, which hit Central America in early September.
1971: 5 baby girls named Francelia
1970: 10 baby girls named Francelia
1969: 23 baby girls named Francelia (and 8 more named Francellia)
1968: unlisted
1967: 7 baby girls named Francelia
Francelia’s last appearance on the SSA’s list was in 1998, with just 7 baby girls. (To be included on the list, a name needs to be given to at least 5 babies.)
Do you like the name Francelia? Would you consider using it for a baby girl?
Sources: SSA, SSDI
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