Cecil

Latin

"blind"

Cecil Origin and Meaning

The name Cecil is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "blind".

Once a powerful Roman clan name, Cecil has lost much of its potency over the years, though it retains a strong presence in the sports and jazz worlds. Past bearers include film giant Cecil B. DeMille, poet Cecil Day Lewis, father of Daniel, and photographer Cecil Beaton. Fictional Cecils appear in Oscar Wilde's play, Lady Windemere's Fan, E. M. Foster's A Room With a View and the film Lee Daniel's The Butler.

Cecil Rank in US Top 1000

# 973 in the US

Cecil Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 689 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Cecil

• 689 Nameberry 2025
• 523 Unique 2023

20 Names Similar to Cecil

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Famous People Named Cecil

• Cecil Blount DeMille American film director
• Cecil Grant Fielder American baseball player
• Cecil Adams pen name of the author of The Straight Dope column
• Cecil Baldwin American voice actor
• Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton British photographer
• Cecil "Cecilius" Calvert founder of Maryland, USA
• Cecil Day Lewis, British poet
• Cecil Dowdy American football player
• Cecil Newton American football player
• Cecil John Rhodes British entrepreneur and politician
• Cecil Carlon Shorts American football player

The name Cecil in Pop Culture

• Cecil Gershwin Palmer gay radio host and main character of "Welcome To Night Vale"
• Cecil Dynever character in "Lionel Lincoln"
• Cecil Gaines character in "The Butler"
• Cecil Harvey character in "Final Fantasy IV"
• Cecil Jacobs character in "To Kill A Mockingbird"
• Lord Cecil Psnake character in "Freddy and Fredericka"
• Cecil Terwilliger brother of Sideshow Bob on "The Simpsons"
• Cecil Vyse character in "A Room with a View"
• "Cecil Dreeme" (1862) "interesting early transvestite novel" by Theodore Winthrop, in which Clara Denman dresses up as male painter amongst New York artists under the name of Cecil Dreeme in order to escape marriage to the evil Dendreth
• Cecil Zimbabwean lion killed in 2015

International Variations of the name Cecil

• Cecilio Italian