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Cecelia
Gender: Feminine
Language: English
Etymology:
Cecelia is an alternate form of the name Cecilia, the modern English and Latin form of Caecilia, an old Latin name meaning Blind.
History:
The spelling Cecelia-with-an-e was, at one time, as or more common in the United States than the spelling Cecilia-with-an-I.
Please see Cecilia for more information.
Pronunciation: sah-seal-ee-ah.
Diminutives:
English: Cissy, Cissie, Sesse, Sessy, Sissy.
Popularity:
Percentage from the 1990 U.S. Census:
0.032 % named Cecelia
Popularity of Cecelia:
Popularity (for newborns):
In the United States...
1850: 247th most popular.
1875: 300th most popular.
1900-1910: 187th most popular.
1910-1920: 191st most popular.
1920-1930: 235th most popular.
1930-1940: 293rd most popular.
1940-1950: 263rd most popular.
1950-1960: 337th most popular.
1960-1970: 511th most popular.
1970-1980: 878th most popular.
1980-1990: 979th most popular.
1990: 909th most popular.
1991: 953rd most popular.
1992: 968th most popular.
1993: 853rd most popular.
1994: N/A
1995: 812th most popular.
1996: 756th most popular.
1997: 902nd most popular.
1998: 814th most popular.
1999: 767th most popular.
2000: 784th most popular.
2001: 772nd most popular.
2002: 747th most popular.
2003: 745th most popular.
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