Comments for CECILIA:

A Norwegian form of Cecilia is Sissela.

-- Ylva  8/14/2005

Cecila was the name of one of the Lisbon sisters in the film and novel, The Virgin Suicides.

-- Anonymous User  10/20/2005

"Cecilia" is also the name of a song by Simon & Garfunkel. It is a common name in Sweden, most girls go by pet names Cissi or Cilla.

-- Anonymous User  12/16/2005

The legend says that an angel fell in love with Cecilia for her musical skill, and nightly brought her roses from paradise. Her husband saw the angel-visitant, who gave to both a crown of martyrdom.

-- wiswina  12/20/2005

Cecilia is a beautiful name, even though it is long and very old fashioned. It makes me think of a pretty, young Victorian lady.

-- Anonymous User  2/20/2006

The thriller Dark Water has a character with the name, shortened to Ceci.

-- lindamaree  3/8/2006

Cecilia is a character on 7th Heaven.

-- Anonymous User  5/3/2006

Cecilia (or at least, a variant Cecilie) is the name of a character in the anime series Kyou Kara Maou.

-- Lyzz  6/16/2006

Cecilia is a very beautiful name.

-- Anonymous User  7/15/2006

Cecilia is the name of Tom Riddle senior's girlfriend in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince before Voldemort's mother Merope tricked Tom Senior into falling in love with her.

-- Jeana Bradbury  8/15/2006

Cecilia is a very pretty name. If I ever have a little girl I think I will name her Cecilia and call her Celia for short!

-- Philippa  9/12/2006

Opera singer Cecilia Bartoli bears this name, and Cecilia Tallis is one of the main characters in Ian McEwan's novel "Atonement".

-- Celeste  9/15/2006

Cecilia is a vibrant, gorgeous name. Simon and Garfunkel have a song called "Cecilia."

-- tmarie  9/16/2006

Cecilia is a very beautiful name, I am surprised it isn't used as often. I like the nicknames Celia or Cece.

-- Anonymous User  10/31/2006

I love this name, although I prefer to spell it: Cecilla, because it reminds me more of how it is pronounced. Say seal ya/yuh. Everytime I hear this name, I want to sing the Simon and Garfunkel song, which isn't a bad thing because that song is quite good.

-- roxhai  3/6/2007

Cecilia (Sissy) Jupe is a character in Charles Dickens' novel "Hard Times."

-- Kate  5/6/2007

Cecilia is also the Czech and Slovak form. Name Day: 22th November.

-- Ronja  6/26/2007

In Dickens's novel "Hard Times" the character named Cecilia Jupe is known as Cissy, except at her school, where frivolity is discouraged. She is a vibrant, attractive girl and Dickens shows her as having a better life than the dull, fact-based lives of most of the characters; her very decorative name underlines this.

-- Anneza  8/10/2007

Cecilia Tallis is one of the main characters in Ian McEwan's tragic love story and tale of redemption "Atonement". She will be played by Keira Knightley in the upcoming film. This is hands down my favorite name.

-- BackFromtheDead  11/24/2007

I love this name! It is so elegant sounding but yet is not going overboard. I like it even better with an accent aigou (It's on the end of Renee and cliche) so there is an "Ay" sound. The name would be pronnounced Say-seal-yah).

-- bunnygirl  1/19/2008

I just read the script to Atonement, and loved Keira Knightley in the adaption of my favorite book, Pride and Predjudice, so now I'm obsessed with the beauty of this name. If it wasn't slightly difficult to say, I'd replace Sophia with this!

-- joli_dans_titre1  1/25/2008

This is a beautiful name, and it sounds nicely classy and sort of romantic without being too cutesy or anything. It has some sort of an esthetic quality to it. I personally wouldn't use any martyr or saint names, though.

-- slight night shiver  4/20/2008

Cecilia is a child character in Runefactory, a Fantasy Harvest Moon. In Runefactory2 she is a marriage candidate. In the first runefactory her nickname was "Ceci" (Cee-cee).

-- RadishQueen  7/28/2008

I've read on many other websites that Cecilia does not mean "blind", it means "leader of the blind". José Saramago, author of the Nobel Prize winning novel "Blindness" almost named the main character Cecilia, because she is the only person who can see after a city is struck by an epidemic of blindness. He later decided to not give the characters names, and called the main character The Doctor's Wife instead. Julianne Moore will play her in the upcoming movie.

-- Clytemnestra  9/14/2008

Cecilia was a character in the telenovela 'Carita de Angel'. I think the name is a beautiful, elegant, classy-sounding one.

-- Diamante04  1/24/2009

Listen to the German pronunciation of Cecilia here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html

-- _satu_  5/11/2009

Lovely name, tragic about the meaning and story though. :D

-- walesgal92  6/27/2009

You would think this name would be popular among musicians, especially those who are Catholic, due to it being the name of the patron saint of music. I think this is a beautiful name and would definitely consider it for a child of mine. I love the ancient, classic, elegant vibe it gives off.

-- britto08  10/10/2009

well my confirmation name is cecilia cuz i was named after my grandmother. st. cecilia wuz the patron st. of music and the name sounds very light, feminine, and delicate to me.

-- iceskater735  11/19/2009

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