Cecilie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variante de Cécile/Cecilia, du latin caecus « aveugle »
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səsili/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cecilie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. In Norway it is the 74th most common given name.
- DKDenmark1 in 385(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 659
- SESweden1 in 24K
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- 1 in 385 (inferred from the name graph)
15,237 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variante de Cécile/Cecilia, du latin caecus « aveugle ».
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cecilie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #125 | 15,237 | 1 in 385 | 15K | Cecilie | 144 |
| NO Norway | #74 | 8,301 | 1 in 659 | 31K | Cecilie | 128 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 1,174 | 1 in 9.1K | 1.2K | — | — |
| GH Ghana | #985 | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Cecilie | 6 |
| US United States | — | 501 | 1 in 664K | 501 | Cecilie | 147 |
| SE Sweden | — | 419 | 1 in 24K | 419 | Cecilie | 28 |
| GL Greenland | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 104 | — | 3 |
15,237 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5). 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)
- Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmarkb. 1911GRGreek and Danish princess
- Kaci Kullmann Fiveb. 1951NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian politician (1951-2017)
- Cecilie Risøeb. 1952NONorwegian physician
- Cecilie Thomsenb. 1974DKDanish actress
- Cecilie Maria Stenspilb. 1979DKDanish actress
- Cecilie Haugaardb. 1990DKDanish model
- Cecilie Uttrup Ludwigb. 1995DKDanish cyclist
- Cecilie Fiskerstrandb. 1996NONorwegian association football player
- Emma Friisb. 1999DKnot in their usual nameDanish handball player
- Emma Norsgaard Bjergb. 1999DKnot in their usual nameDanish cyclist, born 1999
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 44 sources across 26 countries.
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 does the name Cecilie mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variante de Cécile/Cecilia, du latin caecus « aveugle ».
- Is Cecilie a male or female name?
- Cecilie 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 Cecilie have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Cecilie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cecilie.
- Where is Cecilie most common?
- Cecilie is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 385 people carrying it.
- How do you pronounce Cecilie?
- A machine transcription gives /səsili/ (IPA) for Danish.
- What are other forms of the name Cecilie?
- In the etymology graph, Cecilia, Sheila and Celia are forms of the same name in other languages; Silje is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Cecilie?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 15,237 people named Cecilie, about 1 in 385 residents.
- How common is Cecilie compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Cecilie is the 125th most common given name of 23,174 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cecilie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cecilieThe 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, “Cecilie” — the 125th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.