Given name

Cecilija

Cecilija is a feminine given name. It is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Cecilija comes from Latin.

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How it developed

From Latin Caecilia.

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Cecilija’s family of names

In Slovenian usage, Cecilija has a conventional equivalent in the German form Cäcilia. In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Cecilija is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Цецилия.

Walk Cecilija’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Cecilija

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Similar names

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Latin

Cecilía

Cecilía is a feminine given name. It is used in Icelandic.

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Latin

Emīlija

Emīlija is a feminine given name from Latin. It is used in Latvian.

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>99% girls

Latin

Cecílie

Cecílie is a feminine given name. It is used in Czech.

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>99% girls

Latin

Cécile

“blind”

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>99% girls

Latin

Celestinas

Celestinas is a given name from Latin. It is used in Lithuanian.

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Latin

Egija

Egija is a feminine given name from Latin. It is used in Latvian.

No U.S. birth series

>99% girls

Phoenician

Sofonisba

Sofonisba is a feminine given name from Latin, ultimately from Phoenician. It is used in Italian.

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>99% girls

Latin

Scipia

Scipia is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Old English.

No U.S. birth series

>99% girls

Sibling ideas

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