Cecil
A boys’ name of Latin origin, meaning blind.
Babies a year
102
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#4275
4 babies
Cecil by the numbers
In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Cecil. In the US, 102 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 2,459 babies in 1920, so it is a 1920s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Cecil. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
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