Cecilia

“Possibly blind” — Latin origin

Girl's name · #108 in the US (2025) · Trending

Cecilia is moving up the charts. First recorded in 1880, it stood at #108 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet; about 112,000 girls have been named Cecilia along the way. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records. Cecilia's short forms are Cece and Sissy. Together with its spelling variant Cecelia (#529), Cecilia would rank around #82 with about 3,100 births last year — the newborns split about 81/19 between Cecilia and Cecelia.

Around the world: #3 in Brazil (2025) · #93 in Puerto Rico (2025).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 50 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Cecilias

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin — British-born American astronomer
Cecilia Bartoli — Italian opera singer (born 1966)
Cecilia Roth — Argentine actress
Cecilia Malmström — Swedish politician
Cecilia Renata of Austria — Queen Consort of Poland

In stories & tradition

Cecilia Reyes — The New Mutants · X-Men
Cecilia Immergreen — fictional humanoid
Cecilia Algotsdotter — fictional human

What Cecilias become

Among 1,266 notable people named Cecilia:

No single standout — notable Cecilias spread across many fields.

Similar names: Cecelia · Lucia · Celeste · Natalia · Liliana · Aurelia

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