Cecelia

Where Cecelia comes from

The dictionaries list Cecelia as a given name — a female given name from Latin, variant of Cecilia — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #226 among girls — 47 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1884
    Peak, #169
    109 babies named Cecelia — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1915
    Cecelia Wolstenholme born
    British swimmer, Olympic athlete, British Empire Games gold medallist
  4. 1981
    Cecelia Ahern born
    Irish novelist
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, variant of Cecilia.
Namesakes
  • Cecelia Ahern · Irish novelist, born 1981
  • Cecelia Wolstenholme · British swimmer, Olympic athlete, British Empire Games gold medallist, 1915–1968
  • Cecelia Joyce · Irish cricketer, born 1983
  • Cecelia Hall · Sound Editor/ Sound Engineer, born 1950
  • Cecelia Ager · American film critic and reporter, 1902–1981

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.