Cecilia

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Female Name

Usage

Old Norse
Old Swedish
Old Danish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic form of Caecilia (see also -ia)

Related Names

See Caecilia

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ceciliuson

Female

Ceciliudóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Cecilia
Genitive:	Cecilias

- Finnish
Nominative:	Cecilia
Genitive:	Cecilian
Partitive:	Ceciliaa

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Cecilia
Accusative:	Ceciliu
Dative:	Ceciliu
Genitive:	Ceciliu

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Cecilia
Genitive:	Cecilias

- Swedish
Nominative:	Cecilia
Genitive:	Cecilias

Name Days

Denmark

22 November

Faroe Islands

22 November

Finland

22 November

Finland (Swedish Language)

22 November

Sweden

22 November

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark:
  • 11th century
• Sweden:
  • 12th century
  • early 13th century
• Greenland:
  • 1948

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark:
  • Top 4 in the Middle Ages
  • -1900
  • -1930
  • 1970-
  • 1980-
• Sweden:
  • -1909
  • 1960-
  • 1970-1989

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark:
  • Bornholm
  • København
  • Sjælland
  • Østjylland
  • Vestjylland
• Sweden:
  • Blekinge (19th century) see map
  • Skåne (19th century) see map
  • Sydsverige
  • Östsverige

Namesakes

• Cecilia Gustavsdotter Vasa (16 November 1540 in Stockholm – 27 January 1627 in Brussels), Princess of Sweden as the daughter of King Gustav I and his second queen, Margareta Eriksdotter Leijonhufvud
• Ingrid Thorborg Cecilia Eriksdotter Bruce (born 6 februari 1935), Swedish singer, writer and teacher
• Birgitta Maria Cecilia Nilsson (born 15 July 1957), Swedish actress

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 39872 people were named Cecilia (percentage of first or only given name: 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		23274	65215	23274	65211	0	4
Finland		n.a.	7259	n.a.	7259	0	0
Denmark		1786	n.a.	1786	n.a.	0	n.a.
Iceland		16	35	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		6	16	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		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.

 

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Swedish Regional Distribution

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