Cècile
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cècile is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 87th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Learned borrowing from Latin Caecilia.
- FRFrance≈1 in 785(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 1.5K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 6.2K
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 Cècile 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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 372 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 785 (inferred from the name graph)
≈86,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Cecile in FR France, US United States, PH Philippines and 2 more and Cecilie 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(measured from records)
Learned borrowing from Latin Caecilia
Sources 2
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cècile 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #87 | ≈86,000 est. | ≈1 in 785 | 178K | Cecile | 372 |
| US United States | — | 37,487as Cecil | 1 in 8.9K | 36K | Cecile | 318 |
| CM Cameroon | #86 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Cecile | 26 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Cecile | 80 |
| DK Denmark | — | 15,237as Cecilie | 1 in 385 | 15K | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 8,301as Cecilie | 1 in 659 | 31K | Cecilie | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,172 | 1 in 8K | 2.1K | Cecile | 63 |
| GY Guyana | — | 538as Cecil | 1 in 1.4K | 538 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 9 | #23,928 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cècile mean, and where does it come from?
- Learned borrowing from Latin Caecilia Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Cècile a male or female name?
- Cècile 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 Cècile have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 86 thousand people named Cècile in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cecile.
- How common is the name Cècile?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,172 people named Cècile, about 1 in 8.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Cècile compared with other names?
- In France, Cècile is the 87th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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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%A8cileThe 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, “Cècile” — the 87th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.