Given name & surname
Cicero
“resembling a chickpea”
Cicero is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “resembling a chickpea.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “resembling a chickpea.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
How it developed
From Latin Cicerō, from Latin cicer (“chickpea”); its root is Proto-Indo-European *h₃enh₂-.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cicero through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,453
- 1,453 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1920
- 41 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,400 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,400 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 41 in 1920. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 495 as a first name in 2020; 3,317 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cicero’s family of names
In Italian usage, Cicero as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with CECERE. Cicero has a related form in Ciceron.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Appears in
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