Cecile
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cecile is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 87th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Canadian French.
- FRFrance≈1 in 785(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 1.5K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 6.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Cecile itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 372 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 785 (inferred from the name graph)
≈86,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cecilie in NO Norway.
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)
Canadian French
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cecile 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #87 | ≈86,000 est. | ≈1 in 785 | 178K | Cecile | 372 |
| US United States | — | 37,487as Cecil | 1 in 8.9K | 36K | Cecile | 318 |
| CM Cameroon | #86 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Cecile | 26 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Cecile | 80 |
| DK Denmark | — | 15,237as Cecilie | 1 in 385 | 15K | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 8,301as Cecilie | 1 in 659 | 31K | Cecilie | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,172 | 1 in 8K | 2.1K | Cecile | 63 |
| GY Guyana | — | 538as Cecil | 1 in 1.4K | 538 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cecile is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In fro, a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Cecilia or Cecile
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)
- Cecily of Yorkb. 1469GBnot in their usual nameEnglish princess
- Cécile Chaminadeb. 1857FRFrench composer and pianist (1857-1944)
- Pauline Réageb. 1907FRnot in their usual nameFrench journalist and novelist best known for her erotic novel Story of O
- Cécile Aubryb. 1928FRFrench actress, television director, writer and screenwriter (1928–2010)
- Adrienne Richb. 1929USnot in their usual nameAmerican poet, essayist and feminist (1929–2012)
- Cécile La Grenadeb. 1952GDGovernor-General of Grenada
- Zabou Breitmanb. 1959FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress and film director
- Cécile Kyengeb. 1964ITItalian politician and ophthalmologist
- Cécile de Franceb. 1975BEBelgian actress
- Cécile Casselb. 1982FRFrench actress and singer
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)
Attested in 68 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9.6K | #2,512 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 2.1K | #807 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 835 | #2,335 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2016 | 175 | #2,721 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 130 | #6,470 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 117 | #4,006 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 91 | #2,512 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 36 | #3,320 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 22 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 20 | #574 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1952 | 5 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 does the name Cecile mean, and where does it come from?
- Canadian French Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Cecile have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 86 thousand people named Cecile in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cecile.
- Is Cecile a male or female name?
- Cecile 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.
- What are other forms of the name Cecile?
- In the etymology graph, Cecilia and Cecil are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Cecile?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,172 people named Cecile, about 1 in 8.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Cecile compared with other names?
- In France, Cecile is the 87th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cecile?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cecileThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Cecile” — the 87th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.