Cäcilie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Cecilia
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tsiːlɪə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cäcilie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 45K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 518K
- NLNetherlands1 in 1M
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 Cäcilie 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Caecilie in NL Netherlands, IT Italy, CH Switzerland and 1 more and Cacilie in US United States.
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)
a female given name, equivalent to English Cecilia
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cäcilie 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 2 | Cäcilie | 41 |
| DK Denmark | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Caecilie | 2 |
| US United States | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 7.3M | — | Cacilie | 36 |
| FR France | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 2M | listed | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Caecilie | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 518K | 2 | Cäcilie | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | 17 | 1 in 1M | 17 | Caecilie | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 637K | — | Caecilie | 5 |
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-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the french-names-benoist-2009 register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cäcilie is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) Cädlia; Cäzilia; Cedlie; Cedlia;
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
German form of CECILY .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cäcilie von Eskelesb. 1760DEAustrian salon-holder
- Cäcilie von Anrep-Elmptb. 1812(1812-1892)
- Cäcilie Avenariusb. 1815DE(1815-1893)
- Cäcilie von Andrian-Werburgb. 1836(1836-1931)
- Princess Cecilie of Badenb. 1839DEnot in their usual nameRussian grand duchess (1839-1891); youngest daughter of Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, and Princess Sophie of Sweden
- Anna von Liebenb. 1847ATnot in their usual nameAustrian painter and poet (1847–1900), early patient of Sigmund Freud pseudonymised by him as Cäcilie M.
- Celia Lovskyb. 1897ATnot in their usual nameAustrian actress (1897-1979)
- Cäcilie Triebelb. 1903DEGerman politician
- Cäcilie Hansmannb. 1908DEGerman politician (Communist) (1908-1984)
- Cäcilie Prinzessin zu Salm-Salmb. 1911DE(1911-1991)
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 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 17 | #16,282 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 5 | #42,347 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2020 | 2 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2013 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2011 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2010 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2013 | — | — |
| DE Germany | DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen (2007) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Cäcilie mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Cecilia Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Cäcilie?
- 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.
- How do you pronounce Cäcilie?
- A machine transcription gives /tsiːlɪə/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Cäcilie a male or female name?
- Cäcilie 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.
- In which country does Cäcilie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Cäcilie in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cäcilie.
- How common is the name Cäcilie?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 17 people named Cäcilie, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Cäcilie?
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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%A4cilieThe 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, “Cäcilie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.