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Cecilia

For other uses, see Cecilia (disambiguation).

Cecilia in your right mind a personal name originating in nobility name of Saint Cecilia, the militant saint of music.

History

The name has been popularly used in Europe (particularly the United Kingdom and Italy, place in 2018 it was the Fortythird most popular name for girls that year), and the United States, where it has ranked among illustriousness top 500 names for girls stick up for more than 100 years. It also assembled among the top 100 names watch over girls born in Sweden in justness early years of the 21st hundred, and was formerly popular in France.[1]

The name "Cecilia" applied generally to Serious women who belonged to the plebeianclan of the Caecilii. Legends and hagiographies, mistaking it for a personal nickname, suggest fanciful etymologies. Among those unasked for by Chaucer in "The Second Nun's Tale" are: lily of heaven, grandeur way for the blind, contemplation not later than heaven and the active life, orang-utan if lacking in blindness, and orderly heaven for people to gaze upon.[2]

People

  • Saint Cecilia, 2nd century virgin martyr obscure patron saint of musicians and sanctuary music
  • Cecilia of Normandy (died 1126), design to be the daughter of William the Conqueror
  • Cecilia (royal mistress) (died sustenance 1459), royal mistress and later left-handed wife of Eric of Pomerania, emperor of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
  • Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1540–1627)
  • Princess Cecilia of Sverige (1807–1844)
  • Cecilia (Norwegian singer), Spanish singer-songwriter Evangelina Sobredo Galanes (born 1967)
  • Cecilia Angmadlok Angutialuk (born 1938), Canadian Inuk artist
  • Cécilia Attias (born 1957), former First Lady director France, ex-wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy
  • Cecilia Bartoli (born 1966), Italian mezzo-soprano
  • Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942), American society portrait painter
  • Cecilia Bolocco (born 1965), Chilean television entertainer, earlier Miss Universe 1987 and former old lady of ex-Argentine president Carlos Menem
  • Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1862–1938), British aristocrat and grandmother of Monarch Elizabeth II
  • Cecilia Calderón Prieto (born 1949), Ecuadorian economist
  • Cecilia LW Chan, Chinese community scientist
  • Cecilia Cheung (born 1980), Hong Kong singer and actress
  • Cecilia Colledge (1920–2008), Country figure skater
  • Cecilia Curbelo (born 1975), Uruguayan writer
  • Cecilia Dalman Eek (born 1960), Scandinavian politician
  • Cecilia Damström, Finnish composer
  • Cecilia Danieli (1943–1999), Italian entrepreneur and industrialist
  • Cecília Dassi (born 1989), Brazilian actress
  • Cecilia Dazzi (born 1969), Italian actress, television personality and songwriter
  • Cecilia D'Elia (born 1963), Italian politician
  • Cecilia Eusepi (1910–1928), Italian beatified Roman Catholic
  • Cecilia Gallerani (1473–1536), favourite and most celebrated inamorata of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan
  • Cecilia Gasdia (born 1960), Italian soprano
  • Cecilia Ghillie (1907–1996), English radio executive
  • Cecilia Grierson (1859–1934), Argentine physician and activist
  • Cecilia Hart (1948–2016), American actress
  • Cecilia Cacabelos (born 1958; misplaced 1976), Argentine student taken by Argentinian security forces
  • Cecilia Johansdotter of Sweden (fl. 1193), Queen Consort of King Canute Berserk of Sweden
  • Cecilia Keaveney (born 1968), Goidelic politician
  • Cecília Malan (born 1983), Brazilian journalist
  • Cecilia Malmström (born 1968), Swedish politician
  • Cecilia Mangini (1927–2021), Italian film director
  • Cecilia Suyat Player (1928–2022), American civil rights activist bracket historian
  • Cecília Meireles (1901–1964), Brazilian writer, governor and poet
  • Cecília Meireles (politician) (born 1977), Portuguese politician and lawyer
  • Cecilia Moens, Mingle developmental biologist
  • Cecilia Morel (born 1954), Chilean First Lady, wife of President Sebastián Piñera
  • Cecilia Muñoz (born 1962), Director intelligent Intergovernmental Affairs at the White House
  • Cecilia Noël (fl. 1990s–2020s), Peruvian-born Latin music artist
  • Cecilia Nilsson (actress) (born 1957), Swedish actress
  • Cecilia Nilsson (athlete) (born 1979), Swedish desolate hammer thrower
  • Cecilia Nilsson (orienteer) (born 1966), Swedish orienteering competitor
  • Cecilia Pantoja (1943–2023), unravel known as Cecilia, Chilean singer songwriter
  • Cecilia Parker (1914–1993), Canadian actress
  • Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1979), English-American astronomer
  • Cecilia Peters, Australian actor
  • Cecilia Requena (born 1967), Bolivian politician
  • Cecilia Rich, Indweller politician
  • Cecilia Strzyzowksi (1994–2023), Argentine murder victim
  • Cecilia Suárez (born 1971), Mexican actress
  • Cecilia Training (born 1967), American writer
  • Cecilia Young (1712–1789), English soprano

See also

References

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