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Cecylia Cecylia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tseh-TSIL-ya /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Saint Cecilia patron of music (Polish + Catholic)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Latin)

A name that means "saint cecilia patron of music (polish + catholic)".

Cecylia is from the Polish Cecylia — from Latin Caecilia — from Latin caecus (blind). Cecylia is one of the Polish feminine names — central to traditional Polish Catholic + European heritage. 2nd-3rd c. Cecilia's Day (1739) Benjamin Britten's Hymn to St.

Saint Cecilia patron of music (Polish + Catholic).

The name in its native script.

Cecylia
Transliteration
Cecylia
Pronunciation
/ tsɛˈtsɪl.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cecylia stands.

Cecylia 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.

Cecylias before her.

Real people

In fiction
Saint Cecilia / Cecylia
Roman Christian virgin-martyr + patron of music + musicians + Roman Canon of Mass + feast November 22 + Maderno sculpture 1600 + Purcell + Handel + Britten odes + Accademia di Santa Cecilia 1585.
c. 2nd-3rd c. CE

Names connected to Cecylia.

The number behind Cecylia.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cecylia reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.