Cäcilia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Latin Caecilia, from caecus 'blind'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/t͡sɛˈt͡siːli̯a/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cäcilia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 54K
- BRBrazil1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Cäcilia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,200 named Caecilia, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Caecilia in NL Netherlands, ID Indonesia and Cacilia in CH Switzerland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Latin Caecilia, from caecus 'blind'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cäcilia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 37K | listed | Caecilia | 3 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 1 | Cäcilia | 67 |
| NL Netherlands | 2,137as Caecilia | 1 in 8.1K | 2.1K | Caecilia | 22 |
| BR Brazil | 181 | 1 in 1.2M | 181 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 202 | Cäcilia | 24 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Cacilia | 18 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cäcilia Weberb. 1727DEMozart's mother-in-law
- Friederike Koch von Langentreub. 1866ATnot in their usual nameAustrian artist
- Cäcilia Böhm-Wendtb. 1875CZAustrian physicist
- Cäcilie Rostock-Mannlicherb. 1893ATnot in their usual nameAustrian writer
- Archduchess Margaretha of Austriab. 1894UAnot in their usual nameAustro-Tuscan Imperial and Royal (1894-1986)
- Sissy Löwingerb. 1941ATnot in their usual nameAustrian actress (1940–2011)
- Magdalena Koppb. 1948DEnot in their usual nameGerman photographer and member of the Revolutionary Cells (RZ)
- Cäcilia Rentmeisterb. 1948DEGerman art historian
- Cäcilia Fluckb. 1963DEGerman Christian archaeologist
- Veronica Ferresb. 1965DEnot in their usual nameGerman actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cäcilia mean, and where does it come from?
- from Latin Caecilia, from caecus 'blind' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Cäcilia?
- A machine transcription gives /t͡sɛˈt͡siːli̯a/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Cäcilia a male or female name?
- Cäcilia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Cäcilia?
- In the etymology graph, Cecilia, Sheila and Celia are forms of the same name in other languages; Silke is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Cäcilia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 thousand people named Caecilia in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Cäcilia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 181 people named Cäcilia in 2022, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Cäcilia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/c%C3%A4ciliaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cäcilia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.