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.

# 973 in the US

Cecil Rank in US Top 1000

# 717 on Nameberry

Cecil Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Cecil Popularity

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

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