Cecilia

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Old Danish Old Danish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic form of Caecilia (see also -ia) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Related Names

See Caecilia

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ceciliuson Iceland

Female

Ceciliudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Cecilia
Genitive: Cecilias
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Cecilia
Genitive: Cecilian
Partitive: Ceciliaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Cecilia
Accusative: Ceciliu
Dative: Ceciliu
Genitive: Ceciliu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Cecilia
Genitive: Cecilias
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Cecilia
Genitive: Cecilias

Name Days

Denmark Denmark

22 November

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

22 November

Finland Finland

22 November

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

22 November

Sweden Sweden

22 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 39872 people were named Cecilia (percentage of first or only given name: 10 %) [10]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[12]
23274 65215 23274 65211 0 4
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
7259
n.a.
7259 0 0
Denmark Denmark[14]
1786
n.a.
1786
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[15]
16 35
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[16]
6 16
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[17]
814
n.a.
814
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Cecilia (f) Sources: [12][14][17][13]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Cecilia (f) Sources: [18]

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Cecilia (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Cecilia (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  6. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  7. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  9. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  11. 11.0 11.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  12. 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  16. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  17. 17.0 17.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  18. details see Name Statistic tables