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
Cecile through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #403 among girls, with 17 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1891
    Cecile Arnold born
    American actress
  3. 1898
    Peak, #221
    172 babies named Cecile, its best rank.
  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.