Cecilie

given name · Danish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Cecilie is a given name, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Danish and Norwegian Bokmål, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Variante de Cécile/Cecilia, du latin caecus « aveugle ».

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 385◐
  • NONorway1 in 659
  • USUnited States1 in 664K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈26K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
139 ●

17K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 385 ◐

Denmark

Meaning & origin●

recorded in French

Variante de Cécile/Cecilia, du latin caecus « aveugle ».

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Cecilie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DK Denmark#7415,237△3.6K rec.1 in 38515KCecilie139
NO Norway#1108,3016.4K rec.1 in 65931KCecilie109
CZ Czechia—1,1740 rec.1 in 9.1K1.2K—1
DE Germany—607507 rec.—1Cecilie63
AU Australia—516457 rec.—1Cecilie48
US United States—5014.4K rec.1 in 664K501Cecilie116
GB United Kingdom—491370 rec.—listedCecilie45
SE Sweden—419535 rec.1 in 24K419Cecilie26
PH Philippines—172155 rec.——Cecilie8
GL Greenland#941101 rec.—104Cecilie3
CA Canada—9996 rec.——Cecilie14
GH Ghana—8170 rec.——Cecilie6

Roughly 15K people in Denmark bear this name (about 1 in 385). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Danish72K54%
  • Norwegian Bokmål31K23%
  • Norwegian9.1K7%
  • Czech6.4K5%
  • English5.3K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Danish72,11354%
Norwegian Bokmål30,59023%
Norwegian9,0747%
Czech6,3935%
English5,3474%

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◐

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

  • French given name3.0K records spelled Cecilie4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Norway, United States, Philippines

    Also written Cécilie, Cêcilie

  • a separate given name2.9K records spelled Cecilie3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Sweden, United States, Spain

    Also written Cecílie, Cecilié

  • Spanish given name2.1K records spelled Cecilie4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Spain, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Cécilie

  • a separate given name595 records spelled Cecilie3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom

    Also written Cecílie, Cécilie

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●

01002003004001960198020002020337 · 1974

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Cecilie in SSB — Navn (1880–present), Norway, 1945–2024
Yearrecords
19454
19467
194711
194812
195010
195111
19528
195311
195414
195515
195612
195713
195828
195926
196018
196132
196236
196351
196463
196576
196664
196781
1968106
1969152
1970164
1971193
1972238
1973275
1974337
1975332
1976294
1977264
1978279
1979268
1980262
1981270
1982263
1983220
1984221
1985256
1986250
1987244
1988233
1989234
1990206
1991230
1992184
1993197
1994220
1995170
1996170
1997171
1998129
1999113
200090
200186
200286
200360
200454
200540
200640
200733
200830
200931
201028
201122
201226
201318
201412
201512
201616
20179
201811
20199
20205
20218
20229
20236
20245

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 79 years between 1945–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, b. 1911Kaci Kullmann Five, b. 1951Cecilie Risøe, b. 1952Cecilie Thomsen, b. 1974Cecilie Maria Stenspil, b. 1979Cecilie Haugaard, b. 1990Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig, b. 1995Cecilie Fiskerstrand, b. 1996Emma Friis, b. 1999Emma Norsgaard Bjerg, b. 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).

Evidence●

Attested in 44 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Cecilie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—31K#137
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—15K#36
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20228.3K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20248.3K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20238.3K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20218.3K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20168.3K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20158.3K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20198.3K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20208.3K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20178.3K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20148.3K—

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 2026-09-12 data build · 324 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Cecilie?
We estimate roughly 26 thousand people bear Cecilie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Cecilie have the most bearers?
We estimate about 15 thousand people bear Cecilie in Denmark, more than in any other country in our records, 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 common is Cecilie compared with other names?
In Denmark, Cecilie is the 74th most common given name of 31,396 given names recorded there.
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.
What does the name Cecilie mean?
Recorded meaning: Variante de Cécile/Cecilia, du latin caecus « aveugle ».
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 74th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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