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Baby name
Cecile
Girl
Origin of the name
Cécile is the French form of Cecilia, from the Latin Caecilia, the name of an illustrious Roman family. Saint Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians.
Classic name
20,421births since 1880
1910sgeneration
No. 284rank at its peak, in 1918
Where babies named Cecile are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Cecile is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Cecile is most common in New Hampshire (18.9 times), Maine (16.2) and Rhode Island (11.8), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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