Cece
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Cecilia (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/t͡ʃˈɛt͡ʃə/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Cece is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,495 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.
- FRFrance≈1 in 210K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 223K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 230Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 284 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
1,495 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
North Macedonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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.
How to pronounce Cece
- Indonesian:/t͡ʃˈɛt͡ʃə/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/sese/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A diminutive of the female given name Cecilia.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Cece, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cece 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,495 | 1 in 223K | 1.4K | Cece | 284 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 234K | — | Cece | 16 |
| MK North Macedonia | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Cece | 3 |
| FR France | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 205K | 40 | — | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | Cece | 9 |
| SG Singapore | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Cece | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 177K | — | Cece | 16 |
1,495 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Cece is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, do lat. cicer; indica produtor/vendedor de grão-de-bico
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Albanian, tsetse (fly of the genus Glossina)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, chickpea (British), garbanzo (US)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, alternative form of ċēace
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In arn, maternal grandfather
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Daphne Youngb. 1915GBnot in their usual namebadminton player
- CeCe Penistonb. 1969USAmerican singer
- CeCe Kizerb. 1997USAmerican soccer player
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Cece?
- In the etymology graph, Cecilia, Sheila and Celia are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Cecily.
- Is Cece a male or female name?
- Cece is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Cece?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Cece, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cece. After it come Nigeria, North Macedonia, France and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How do you pronounce Cece?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /t͡ʃˈɛt͡ʃə/; in Spanish /sese/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Cece mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive of the female given name Cecilia. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Cece?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,495 people named Cece in 2020, about 1 in 223 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cece?
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/ceceThe 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, “Cece” — ranked 9332nd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.