Cecilia is feminine form of the Roman family name Caecilius, that developed into a given name. It is derived from Latin ‘caecus’ meaning ‘blind’.
Cecilia is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Cecilia isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Cecilia ranks 163. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 11 were named Cecilia. In the entire USA, approximately 95,678 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Cecilia. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
Cecilia is feminine form of the Roman family name Caecilius, that developed into a given name. It is derived from Latin ‘caecus’ meaning ‘blind’.
Saint Cecilia was a ... 3rd-century martyr who was sentenced to die because she refused to worship the Roman gods. Due to her popularity, the name became common in the Christian world during the Middle Ages.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Cecilia annualy. This means that there have been girls named Cecilia who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Cecilia have consistently been special. Since 2000, however, the name has experienced a certain popularity: in 2021 it holds its present record at #125 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Cecilia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Cecilia has never been ranked higher than #125. In 2022, she rivaled the 137 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 1,995 girls named Cecilia were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Cecilia were born, there have been 1,017 newborns who were given this name.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Cecilia is one of them. However, Cecilia is not equally widespread in all states, but people in New Mexico seem to particularly fancy this name – the 1,968 women called Cecilia who live here are 0,249% of all female residents and push their name up to #100, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in New Mexico.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With seven letters, the name Cecilia has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Cecilia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Cecilia, you can simply say:
Cat
Elephant
Cat
Igloo
Lion
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Cecilia
Cecilia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
E
C
I
L
I
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
E
C
I
L
I
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Cecilia sounds like this:
