Cêcilia

given name · Latin script

Cêcilia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin saint's name Caecilia. First recorded in Sweden in the 12th century.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 3K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 155
  • ECEcuador1 in 656

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

171,217 people, 2022

Sources
54 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 155 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cecilia in US United States, SE Sweden, EC Ecuador and 2 more.

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 saint's name Caecilia. First recorded in Sweden in the 12th century.

Sources 7

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Irish first names
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cêcilia 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.

Where Cêcilia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—171,2171 in 1.2K171K—1
US United States—109,3891 in 3K109KCecilia54
SE Sweden—65,7981 in 15566KCecilia21
EC Ecuador—25,7811 in 65626KCecilia8
ES Spain—19,4671 in 2.6K20KCecilia15
FI Finland—5,2261 in 1.1K7.7K—6
CR Costa Rica—3,7401 in 1.4K3.7K—1
BO Bolivia#755———Cecilia7

171,217 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Cêcilia under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Cêcilia mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin saint's name Caecilia. First recorded in Sweden in the 12th century. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Irish first names and 5 other sources.
Is Cêcilia a male or female name?
Cêcilia 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 Cêcilia have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 171 thousand people named Cêcilia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Cêcilia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cêcilia is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 155 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Cêcilia?
In Brazil, the national register counted 171,217 people named Cêcilia in 2022, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
How common is Cêcilia compared with other names?
In Bolivia, Cêcilia is the 755th most common given name of 14,891 given names recorded there.

What do you want to know about Cêcilia?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/c%C3%AAcilia

The 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, “Cêcilia” — the 755th most common given name in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Cêcilia parses inside a full name →