Cecelia

girls:

59.4k births since 1880

#522 (91st percentile)

boys:

11 births since 1932

#4575 (0th percentile)

overall:

59.4k births since 1880

#967 (88th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cecelia".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
59,412
Peak Births
935
Peak Year
1917
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
66.7%
Current Percentile
53.3%
Peak Rank
#147
Current Rank
#443
Female statistics
Total Births
11
Peak Births
6
Peak Year
1932
First Recorded
1932
Peak Percentile
0.2%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#529
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Cecelia

Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Cecelia. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 36.7% confident that Cecelia is pronounced as suh-SEEL-yuh. The next most likely pronunciation is sih-SEEL-yuh, at 22.4% confidence.

suh-SEEL-yuh (3 syllables)
36.7% confidence
S AH0 S IY1 L Y AH0
sih-SEEL-yuh (3 syllables)
Verified
22.4% confidence
S IH0 S IY1 L Y AH0
seh-SEEL-yuh (3 syllables)
10.2% confidence
S EH0 S IY1 L Y AH0
suh-SEHL-yuh (3 syllables)
8.2% confidence
S AH0 S EH1 L Y AH0
suh-SEE-lee-uh (4 syllables)
8.2% confidence
S AH0 S IY1 L IY0 AH0
see-SEEL-yuh (3 syllables)
8.2% confidence
S IY0 S IY1 L Y AH0
see-SEE-lee-uh (4 syllables)
6.1% confidence
S IY0 S IY1 L IY0 AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Cecelia. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Cecelia, please vote using the thumbs up button.

seh-SIHL-yuh (3 syllables)
8 names 109.1k births
S EH0 S IH1 L Y AH0
sih-SIHL-yuh (3 syllables)
9 names 108.8k births
S IH0 S IH1 L Y AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like S AH0 S IY1 L Y AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.