Entry № 2062 · Latin origin

Cicely Cicely — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SIS-eh-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Blind / pure (Cicely Tyson, 96-year career)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "blind / pure (cicely tyson, 96-year career)".

Cicely is the medieval English form of Cecilia — from the Latin caecus (blind). Cicely Tyson (1924-2021) — American actress whose 70+ year career was a sustained refusal to play roles she considered demeaning to Black women — she once turned down work for 8 consecutive years rather than accept a stereotype.

Blind / pure.

The name in its native script.

Cicely
Transliteration
Cicely
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɪs.ə.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cicely stands.

Cicely 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.

Cicelys before her.

Real people
Cicely Tyson
American actress.
1924 – 2021
Cicely Saunders
Founder of modern hospice care.
1918 – 2005
In fiction
Cecily Cardew
The Importance of Being Earnest.
1895

Names connected to Cicely.

The number behind Cicely.

3

The Communicator

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