Cecily
A girls’ name of Latin origin, meaning blind; diminutive of Cecilia.
Cecily by the numbers
In 2025, 78 babies in England and Wales were named Cecily. In the US, 188 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 473 babies in 1989, making it a 1980s name.
Other names that come from Cecilia
Like Cecily, 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.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Cecily. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Cecilea form of Cecilia; blind or dim-sighted4 in England and Wales (2025)
- Cicilyblind; a form of Cecilia10 in the US (2017)
- Ceciliablind1,804 in the US (2017)
- Cicelyblind; a form of Cecilia14 in England and Wales (2025)
- Cecilieblind; a form of cecilia6 in England and Wales (2025)
- Cecileeblind; a form of Cecilia6 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Cecily
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