🔥Cecilia

Feminine form of Cecil, Latin

"blind"

Cecilia Origin and Meaning

The name Cecilia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "blind".

Cecilia is a lovely classic name deservedly enjoying a new turn in the sun. Always among the Top 500 girls' names in the US, Cecilia is now at its highest point ever.

Cecilia is a feminine form of Cecil, which was derived from a Roman clan name related to the Latin caecus, meaning "blind". While that may put some parents off, we say put that ancient meaning aside and focus on Cecilia's symbolic resonance in the contemporary world as a classy and classic name.

The martyred Saint Cecilia was designated the patron of musicians, either because she supposedly sang directly to God while the musicians played at her wedding, or because she sang to God as she was dying. The name was popularized in the Middle Ages as an homage to the Saint.

On TV, the Cecelia spelling variation was the name chosen for Pam and Jim's baby on The Office; in real life the name of the daughters of Vera Wang and Soledad O'Brien.

Cecilia is also a Dickens character name in Hard Times, and appears in the novels Atonement and The Virgin Suicides, and The Hunger Games series, as well as being the subject of a memorable Simon & Garfunkel song.

Cecilia, Celia and Cecily are all nameberry faves. Cecelia is an accepted spelling variation you may want to consider if you plan to shorten the name to Celia or Cece.

Cecilia Rank in US Top 1000

# 137 in the US

Cecilia Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 56 on Nameberry

Cecilia Popularity

• 137 US 2023
• 56 Nameberry 2024
• 169 Canada 2023
• 153 Future 2028
• 304 England 2021
• 451 Germany 2016
• 36 Italy 2023
• 136 Mexico 2021
• 5 Brazil 2023

20 Names Similar to Cecilia

These 20 names were selected by our users that were looking for other names like Cecilia.

• Celia
• Cecily
• Cordelia
• Beatrice
• Clara
• Genevieve
• Josephine
• Eleanor
• Caroline
• Adelaide
• Charlotte
• Clementine
• Aurelia
• Alice
• Amelia
• Eloise
• Margaret
• Cora
• Juliet
• Eliza

Famous People Named Cecilia

• Saint Cecilia Roman martyr and patroness of musicians
• Cecilia Gustavsdotter Vasa Princess of Sweden; daughter of Gustav I
• Cecilia Princess of Sweden; Grand Duchess of Oldenburg; daughter of Gustav IV Adolf
• Cecilia Nina Bowes Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II
• Cecilia Peck American actress; daughter of Gregory Peck
• Cecilia Bartoli Italian opera singer
• Cecilia Parker American actress
• (Anna) Cecilia Malmström Swedish politician
• Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin, British,American astronomer
• Cecilia Cheung Hong Kong actress
• Cecilia Törn Finnish ice dancer
• Cecilia Beaux American portraitist
• Cecilia Liu Chinese actress
• Cecilia "Ceci" de la Cueva Mexican actress
• Cecilia DeMille Harper daughter of director Cecil B. DeMille
• Alice Cecilia Linh Svensson Swedish singer and Idol 2008 runner,up
• Cécilia Princess of Leiningen (b. 1988), daughter of Prince Karl Emich
• Cecilia Kowalczyk (b. 2011) daughter of musician Ed Kowalczyk of band Live
• Cecilia Delphine Walton (born 2012) daughter of Majandra Delfino and David Walton
• Cecilia Kate McMahon (b. 2014) daughter of singer Andrew McMahon of Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin

Cecilia in Pop Culture

• Cecilia Marie Halpert Jim's and Pam's daughter on The Office
• Cecilia Carol "C.C." Bloom character in book/film "Beaches"
• Cecilia "Cece" Parekh character on TV's "New Girl"
• Cecilia "Cece" Jones character on TV's "Shake It Up"
• Cecilia character in film "Aquamarine"
• Cecilia character in The Hunger Games series
• Cecilia Tallis character in Ian McEwan's "Atonement"
• Cecilia Smith character on TV's "7th Heaven"
• Cecilia Aurora Serendia Marie main character in "Palace of Mirrors" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Cecilia Nuthatch character in "We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story"
• Cecilia "Cecil" Grey main character in Rumer Godden's novel 'The Greengage Summer'
• "Cecilia" song by Simon & Garfunkel
• "Cecilia and the Satellite" song by Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness; inspired by his daughter Cecilia
• "Cecilia" song by The Vamps and Shawn Mendes