Given name & surname
Cecilio
“one who is blind”·“the sixth-born child”
Cecilio is a variant of Cecil. Interpretations include “one who is blind” and “the sixth-born child”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Cecilio is a variant of Cecil. Interpretations include “one who is blind” and “the sixth-born child”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1909. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cecilio through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,411
- 2,411 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 39 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,374 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +1%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,374 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 1.4% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 39 in 1998. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,081 as a first name in 2020; 903 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cecilio’s family of names
Cecilio has a related form in Cecil. In Spanish usage, Cecilio has a conventional equivalent in the English form Cecil. In Spanish usage, Cecilio has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Cecyliusz.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Cecilio
- Cecilio WatermanPanamanian footballerborn 1991
- Cecilio BáezPresident of Paraguay (1862-1941)
- Cecilio DomínguezParaguayan association football playerborn 1994
- Cecilio ApóstolFilipino writer (1877–1938)
- Cecilio AcostaVenezuelan poet and journalist (1818-1881)
- Raúl Berzosa MartínezSpanish bishopborn 1957
- Cecílio LopesCape Verdean footballerborn 1979
- Cecilio Guzmán de RojasBolivian painter (1900-1950)
- Cecilio Valverde MazuelasSpanish politician and lawyer (1927-2001)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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