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Cecil

Cecil is a boy's name, a solidly familiar choice, that was at its most popular in the 1920s and is rarely chosen now.

LatinLatin "caecus"
RomanRoman clan name meaning "blind"
Births by decade
1900s
4,792
1910s
17,798
1920s
24,003
1930s
17,252
1940s
15,392
1950s
12,281
1960s
7,556
1970s
4,256
1980s
3,021
1990s
1,727
2000s
1,113
2010s
801
Peaked in the 1920s · 109,992 total U.S. births since 1900