Cecilia
The 2025 national count puts Cecilia at #108, and rising year over year. An old entry (1880) having its biggest moment now, with 111,511 American bearers across the record.
What Cecilia carries
Cecilia · Latin
“blind”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Cecilia’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Cecilia, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Cecilia since 1880
Cecilia is at its all-time peak right now: #108 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Cecilia is most common
Cecilia is most common in Vermont: 0.82% of the state's recorded girls' names in 2025. Connecticut (0.54%) and Delaware (0.53%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Cecilia
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Celeste
#188 in 2025 · Latin
Camille
#240 in 2025 · Latin
Juliette
#110 in 2025 · Latin
Lorenzo
#117 in 2025 · Latin
Emilio
#154 in 2025 · Latin
Claire
#68 in 2025 · Latin
Vivienne
#172 in 2025 · Latin
Emilia
#45 in 2025 · Latin
Browse: names starting with C · Latin names · all names
About Cecilia
Where does Cecilia rank right now?
The 2025 national count puts Cecilia at #108, and rising year over year. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1880.
What does Cecilia mean?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “blind”, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Cecilia?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Celeste, Camille and Juliette, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Cecilia’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
Make the kitThe book is in the works
A printed picture book where Cecilia earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
Preview the book