Meaning & origin
Cäcilia’s family of names
In German usage, Cäcilia has a diminutive in Zilla. In German usage, Cäcilia has a related form in Cecilia. In German usage, Cäcilia has a conventional equivalent in the English form Cecilia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Cäcilia has relatives in 16 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Cäcilia comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 17
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 15
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Cäcilia
- Cäcilia RentmeisterGerman art historianborn 1948
- Cäcilia WeberMozart's mother-in-law1727–1793
- Sissy LöwingerAustrian actress (1940–2011)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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