Entry № 1822 · Latin origin

Cecily Cecily — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SES-uh-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Blind (Cecily Strong; Cecily Cardew)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "blind (cecily strong; cecily cardew)".

Cecily is the English form of Cecilia — from the Latin caecus (blind) — the Roman gens Caecilia clan name. (Apple TV+ 2021-2023); The Bride Wore Boots (2024).

Blind (Roman clan).

The name in its native script.

Cecily
Transliteration
Cecily
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɛs.ə.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cecily stands.

Cecily 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.

Cecilys before her.

Real people
Cecily Strong
American SNL comedian.
born 1984
Cecily Brown
British contemporary painter.
born 1969
Cecily of York
English princess.
1469 – 1507
In fiction
Cecily Cardew
Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
1895

Names connected to Cecily.

The number behind Cecily.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cecily reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.