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Cecelia

As a girl's name, Cecelia is understood to mean "blind; patron saint of music". It settled in after its 1940s peak and has held its ground ever since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.

EtymologyVariant of Cecilia
EtymologyMeaning "blind"; patron saint of music
Births by decade
1900s
2,793
1910s
6,905
1920s
7,169
1930s
4,597
1940s
7,368
1950s
6,898
1960s
3,857
1970s
1,837
1980s
1,822
1990s
2,445
2000s
3,654
2010s
4,087
Peaked in the 1940s · 53,432 total U.S. births since 1900