Ceciliá
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ceciliá is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Ecuador it is the 32nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Latin saint's name Caecilia. First recorded in Sweden in the 12th century.
- CLChile≈1 in 322(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 474
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 485
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)
- #436 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 462 (measured from records)
- 1 in 155 (inferred from the name graph)
≈240,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
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, BR Brazil, CL Chile and 7 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 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ceciliá 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 | — | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Cecilia | 49 |
| BR Brazil | #165 | 171,217 | 1 in 1.2K | 171K | Cecilia | 184 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Cecilia | 35 |
| US United States | — | 109,389 | 1 in 3K | 109K | Cecilia | 462 |
| PH Philippines | #233 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Cecilia | 119 |
| AR Argentina | #99 | ≈96,000 est. | ≈1 in 474 | 159 | Cecilia | 171 |
| SE Sweden | — | 65,798 | 1 in 155 | 66K | Cecilia | 95 |
| CL Chile | #43 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 322 | 1 | Cecilia | 154 |
| EC Ecuador | #32 | 25,781 | 1 in 656 | 26K | Cecilia | 83 |
| SV El Salvador | #60 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 485 | — | 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); 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); INEC — civil registry 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ceciliá 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 Ceciliá a male or female name?
- Ceciliá 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 Ceciliá have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 244 thousand people named Ceciliá in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cecilia.
- Where is Ceciliá most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ceciliá is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 155 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ceciliá?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 171,217 people named Ceciliá in 2022, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Ceciliá compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Ceciliá is the 32nd most common given name of 27,061 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ceciliá?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cecili%C3%A1The 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, “Ceciliá” — the 32nd most common given name in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.