Cæcilia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cæcilia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 163K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 35M
- NLNetherlands1 in 8.1Kas Caecilia
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 Cæcilia 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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 163K (inferred from the name graph)
2,137 named Caecilia
Reference-verified
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Caecilia in NO Norway.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cæcilia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 2,137as Caecilia | 1 in 8.1K | 2.1K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 103as Caecilia | 1 in 3.2M | 102 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 36 | 1 in 163K | 36 | Cæcilia | 10 |
| IT Italy | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 35M | listed | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | — | — | Caecilia | 3 |
2,137 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Cæcilia Knudsdatterb. 1080Danish princess, daughter of Canute IV
- Ceciliab. 1439not in their usual nameDanish lady-in-waiting at the court of Philippa of England
- Cæcilia Holbek Trierb. 1953DKDanish actor and screenwriter (1953–2023)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 36 | #3,276 |
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
- Is Cæcilia a male or female name?
- Cæcilia 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 Cæcilia have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Caecilia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Cæcilia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cæcilia is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 163 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cæcilia?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 36 people named Cæcilia, about 1 in 163 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cæcilia?
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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%A6ciliaThe 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, “Cæcilia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.