Entry № 1819 · Latin origin

Cecelia Cecelia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Patron of music"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "patron of music".

Cecelia is a variant spelling of Cecilia, the patron saint of music.

Patron of music — a much-loved spelling.

The name in its native script.

Cecelia
Transliteration
Cecelia
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Cecelia stands.

Cecelia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Cecelias before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Cecelia.

The number behind Cecelia.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cecelia reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.