Caecilia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Roman name Caecilius
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/t͡ɛt͡ʃilia/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Caecilia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 28Kas Cäcilia(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 8.1K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 37K
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 Caecilia 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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Cäcilia in DE Germany, AT Austria and Cacilia in CH Switzerland.
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 Roman name Caecilius
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Caecilia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 37K | listed | Caecilia | 3 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 1 | Cäcilia | 67 |
| NL Netherlands | 2,137 | 1 in 8.1K | 2.1K | Caecilia | 22 |
| BR Brazil | 181as Cacilia | 1 in 1.2M | 181 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 202 | Cäcilia | 24 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Cacilia | 18 |
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: the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the id-github-names register. 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)
Caecilia 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 Latin, A feminine praenomen.
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)
- Constanze Mozartb. 1762DEnot in their usual nameAustrian singer
- Caecilia Lootsb. 1903NLDutch teacher and antifascist resistance member (1903–1988)
- Caecilia Andriessenb. 1931NLDutch composer, pianist and musicologist
- Cilia Wittemanb. 1954NLnot in their usual nameresearcher
- Caecilia Wijgersb. 1967NLDiplomat of the Netherlands. Served as Ambassador of the Netherlands to Mali, Afghanistan and to Burundi. Currently Head of interdepartmental Taskforce Medevacs Gaza.
- Cecile Janssensb. 1968NLnot in their usual nameDutch epidemiologist
- Caecilia Charbonnierb. 1981CHSwiss tennis player
- Cecilia of Liechtensteinnot in their usual nameAustrian countess
- Caecilia Davis-WeyerUSart historian
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 3
- 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 Caecilia mean, and where does it come from?
- from Roman name Caecilius Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Caecilia?
- A machine transcription gives /t͡ɛt͡ʃilia/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- Is Caecilia a male or female name?
- Caecilia 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 Caecilia?
- In the etymology graph, Cecilia, Sheila and Celia are forms of the same name in other languages; Silke is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Caecilia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 thousand people named Caecilia in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caecilia.
- Where is Caecilia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Caecilia is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 8.1 thousand people — even though Indonesia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Caecilia?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,137 people named Caecilia, about 1 in 8.1 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Caecilia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/caeciliaThe 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, “Caecilia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.