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Cecylia

Girls' name

Blind, through Caecilia

Cecylia has been given to 145 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Cecylia, 2023

1 in 663,000

Cecylia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cecylia: meaning, origin, and history

Blind, through Caecilia

Latin

What Cecylia means

Cecylia belongs to the name family reached through Cecylia → Caecilia. Its meaning is “blind”.

Origin, language, and formation

Cecylia is used in Polish. Its origins include Latin.

Cecylia comes through Latin Caecilia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cecilia and Caecilia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Cecylia is pronounced /t͡sɛˈt͡sɘ.lja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 145 girls were recorded with the name Cecylia between 1916 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1917; its best national rank was #3,129 in 1917.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cecylia?

Cecylia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cecylia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cecylia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cecylias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cecylia was born before 2009 — so the typical Cecylia is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
123
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Choose a decade

2010s — 35.2% of all recorded uses (51).

Is Cecylia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (9)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,129
1917

Spellings of Cecylia

Cecylia is not the most common spelling — Cecilia is, with 48.3% against Cecylia's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Cecylia around the world

Where Cecylia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2011–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • France
    1997–2025
    #6,855
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1953–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Cecylia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,129
1917
Peak year
1917
9 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
145
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cecylia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Cecylia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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