Cecilía
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Cecilía is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 91st most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 155(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 280
- ARArgentina≈1 in 450
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #436 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 462 (measured from records)
- 1 in 155 (inferred from the name graph)
≈250,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cecilia in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, BR Brazil and 5 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cecilía 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #91 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 520 | 1.8K | Cecilia | 237 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Cecilia | 35 |
| BR Brazil | #165 | 171,217 | 1 in 1.2K | 171K | Cecilia | 184 |
| US United States | — | 109,389 | 1 in 3K | 109K | Cecilia | 462 |
| AR Argentina | #99 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 453 | 159 | Cecilia | 171 |
| CL Chile | #43 | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 277 | 1 | Cecilia | 154 |
| SE Sweden | — | 65,798 | 1 in 155 | 66K | Cecilia | 95 |
| SV El Salvador | #60 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 456 | — | Cecilia | 47 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)- Cecilia BorgesCAresearcher
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
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
- Is Cecilía a male or female name?
- Cecilía 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 Cecilía have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 252 thousand people named Cecilía in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cecilia.
- Where is Cecilía most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cecilía is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 155 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cecilía?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 171,217 people named Cecilía in 2022, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Cecilía compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Cecilía is the 91st most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cecilía?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cecil%C3%ADaThe 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, “Cecilía” — the 91st most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.