Cecile

Where Cecile comes from

From French Cécile, from Anglo-Norman Cecile, from Latin Caecilia.
— Wiktionary's entry for Cecile
  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #403 among girls — 17 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1891
    Cecile Arnold born
    American actress
  3. 1898
    Peak, #221
    172 babies named Cecile — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1957
    Cecile Richards born
    American feminist and abortion rights activist
  5. 1964
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,254.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Cecile Arnold · American actress, 1891–1931
  • Cecile Richards · American feminist and abortion rights activist, 1957–2025
  • Cecile Licad · Filipina classical pianist, born 1961
  • Cecile Walton · Scottish painter, 1891–1956
  • Cecile Hoover Edwards · African American nutritional researcher, 1926–2005

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.