Given name
Cecilie
Cecilie is a feminine given name. It is used in German, Danish, and Norwegian.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Cecilie isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1921. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cecilie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 379
- 0 boys · 379 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,140 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,140 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 25 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 501 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cecilie’s family of names
In Norwegian usage, Cecilie has a diminutive in Sissel. Cecilie has a related form in Cecilia. In Norwegian Nynorsk usage, Cecilie has a conventional equivalent in the English form Cecilia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Cecilie has relatives in 5 languages.
12 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
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 Cecilie
- Princess Cecilie of Greece and DenmarkGreek and Danish princess1911–1937
- Cecilie LegangerNorwegian handball playerborn 1975
- Cecilie Uttrup LudwigDanish cyclistborn 1995
- Cecilie FiskerstrandNorwegian association football playerborn 1996
- Cecilie LøveidNorwegian writerborn 1951
- Cecilie ThomsenDanish actressborn 1974
- Cecilie SkogNorwegian adventurer, extreme mountaineer and television personalityborn 1974
- Cecilie PedersenNorwegian association football playerborn 1990
- Cecilie Redisch KvammeNorwegian footballerborn 1995
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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