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Cecil

Pronounced /ˈsiːsəl/

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1916 · #406
Origin
Latin
Also recorded for boys:122 in 2024 (#1,483)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No girls were recorded as Cecil in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1916 with 241 babies, ranked #406.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 7,687 girls have been named Cecil since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Cecil per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
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    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
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    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 4,139 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Silent: 1,361 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Boomers: 528 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 139 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 106 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 19 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 10 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Latin Caecilius, a Roman family name derived from caecus (“blind”). The surname has absorbed the Old Welsh Seisyllt, from Latin Sextilius, from Sextus.

  • A unisex given name from Latin.
  • A male given name from Latin.
  • A female given name from Latin.
Origin
Latin
Say it
/ˈsiːsəl/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Cecil, CC BY-SA 4.0.