Cecelia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɪˈsiɫjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cecelia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 11K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 12K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 420 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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 across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cecelia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Cecelia | 15 |
| US United States | #934 | 31,176 | 1 in 11K | 31K | Cecelia | 420 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Cecelia | 35 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Cecelia | 48 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 7 | Cecelia | 108 |
| JM Jamaica | #133 | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Cecelia | 11 |
| GY Guyana | — | 98 | 1 in 7.7K | 98 | — | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Texas Guinanb. 1884USnot in their usual nameAmerican Prohibition era saloon keeper and entrepreneur (1884-1933)
- Cecelia Agerb. 1902USAmerican film critic and reporter
- Cecelia Goetzb. 1917USAmerican lawyer, bankruptcy judge, Nuremberg prosecutor (1917-2004)
- Cecelia Hollandb. 1943USnovelist
- Cecelia Conditb. 1947USexperimental filmmaker and film professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (born 1947)
- Cecelia Hallb. 1950USSound Editor/ Sound Engineer
- Gabrielle Uptonb. 1964AUnot in their usual nameAustralian politician
- Cecelia Spechtb. 1967USAmerican film actor
- Cecelia Ahernb. 1981IEIrish novelist
- Cecelia Joyceb. 1983IEIrish cricketer
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 42 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 31K | #1,226 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 569 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 98 | #496 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 38 | #1,226 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 7 | #431 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1943 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | — | — |
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 are other forms of the name Cecelia?
- In the etymology graph, Cecilia, Sheila and Shelia are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Cecelia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 31,176 people named Cecelia in 2020, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Cecelia compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Cecelia is the 133rd most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
- Is Cecelia a male or female name?
- Cecelia 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 Cecelia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 137 thousand people named Cecelia in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cecelia.
- How do you pronounce Cecelia?
- A machine transcription gives /sɪˈsiɫjə/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Cecelia?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ceceliaThe 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, “Cecelia” — the 133rd most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.