Cecelia

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Cecilia in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, MX Mexico and 15 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Cecelia is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name45K records spelled Cecelia7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Philippines, France

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

  Also written Cécélia, Cecélia

• a separate given name18K records spelled Cecelia2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

  Also written Cecélia

• Russian given name2.3K records spelled Cecelia37 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine, Poland

  Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

  Also written Cecilia, Цецилия, Цецилія, Сесилия, Сесилія

• Hindi given name1.6K records spelled Cecelia6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Malaysia

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sinhala

  Also written সেসেলিয়া

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Texas Guinanb. 1884USnot in their usual nameAmerican Prohibition era saloon keeper and entrepreneur (1884-1933)
• Cecelia Agerb. 1902USAmerican film critic and reporter
• Cecelia Goetzb. 1917USAmerican lawyer, bankruptcy judge, Nuremberg prosecutor (1917-2004)
• Cecelia Hollandb. 1943USnovelist
• Cecelia Conditb. 1947USexperimental filmmaker and film professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (born 1947)
• Cecelia Hallb. 1950USSound Editor/ Sound Engineer
• Gabrielle Uptonb. 1964AUnot in their usual nameAustralian politician
• Cecelia Spechtb. 1967USAmerican film actor
• Cecelia Ahernb. 1981IEIrish novelist
• Cecelia Joyceb. 1983IEIrish cricketer

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 310 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Cecelia?

We estimate roughly 423 thousand people bear Cecelia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Cecelia have the most bearers?

Cecelia is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled cecilia.

Where is Cecelia most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cecelia is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 155 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.

How common is Cecelia compared with other names?

In Argentina, Cecelia is the 107th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Cecelia a male or female name?

Cecelia 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.