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Cecil

Pronounced /ˈsiːsəl/

Rank in 2024
#1,483
Born in 2024
122
Peak year
1920 · #77
Origin
Latin
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 122 boys were named Cecil, about 1 in every 14,060.
  • It peaked in 1920 with 2,459 babies, ranked #77.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 106,867 boys 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.

  1. 2.3
    Greatest
  2. 1.4
    Silent
  3. 0.6
    Boomers
  4. 0.3
    Gen X
  5. 0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 37,887 babies, 2.27 per 1,000. Silent: 29,648 babies, 1.44 per 1,000. Boomers: 21,935 babies, 0.58 per 1,000. Gen X: 7,651 babies, 0.28 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,823 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,760 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,306 babies, 0.06 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.