Given name & surname
Caecilia
“blind”
Caecilia is a surname. It is used in Latin.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Caecilia comes from English, and ultimately from Italian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Latin usage, Caecilia is a feminine form of Caecilius.
Caecilia’s family of names
In Latin usage, Caecilia is a feminine form of Caecilius. In Latin usage, Caecilia has a conventional equivalent in the English form Cecilia. In German usage, Caecilia has a related form in Cäcilia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Caecilia has relatives in 11 languages. Lines run from its English roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 1
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 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Ceciliaderivative · Finnish, English
- Sheiladerivative · Portuguese
- Cecilederivative · English
- Sisleyderivative · English
- Siljaderivative · Faroese
- Цецилияderivative · rsk
- Cécirederivative · nrf
- Cecíliaderivative · Slovak, Catalan
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People named Caecilia
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