Cecile
A girls’ name of Latin origin, meaning a form of Cecilia; blind or dim-sighted.
Cecile by the numbers
In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Cecile. In the US, 24 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 495 babies in 1918, so it is a 1910s name that has since fallen a long way.
Other names that come from Cecilia
Like Cecile, each of these traces back to Cecilia: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Ceceliablind; from caecus; variant of Cecilia95 in England and Wales (2025)
- Ceceblind; a form of Cecilia44 in England and Wales (2025)
- Cicelyblind; a form of Cecilia14 in England and Wales (2025)
- Cecilliablind; a variant spelling of Cecilia10 in the US (2017)
- Cicilyblind; a form of Cecilia10 in the US (2017)
- Seciliablind; a form of Cecilia5 in the US (2017)
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Other names in the records within a letter or two of Cecile. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Names about as common as Cecile
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