# Cecelia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cecelia/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 60,530 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 11 / 60,519 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 746, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 434 | 656 |
| 2012 | 484 | 596 |
| 2013 | 535 | 552 |
| 2014 | 535 | 571 |
| 2015 | 572 | 544 |
| 2016 | 579 | 537 |
| 2017 | 585 | 529 |
| 2018 | 512 | 594 |
| 2019 | 557 | 546 |
| 2020 | 511 | 573 |
| 2021 | 548 | 561 |
| 2022 | 599 | 519 |
| 2023 | 617 | 497 |
| 2024 | 530 | 571 |
| 2025 | 569 | 529 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 6 | 3,428 |
| 1943 | 5 | 3,618 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 2,893 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,969 |
| 2013 | 22 | 1,433 |
| 2014 | 18 | 1,628 |
| 2015 | 30 | 1,139 |
| 2016 | 40 | 916 |
| 2017 | 27 | 1,258 |
| 2018 | 42 | 886 |
| 2019 | 37 | 955 |
| 2020 | 42 | 853 |
| 2021 | 62 | 625 |
| 2022 | 69 | 562 |
| 2023 | 79 | 498 |
| 2024 | 89 | 463 |
| 2025 | 95 | 426 |

## People named Cecelia

- Cecelia Wolstenholme, British swimmer, Olympic athlete, British Empire Games gold medallist
- Texas Guinan, American Prohibition era saloon keeper and entrepreneur (1884-1933)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.