Name Cecil - meaning, origin, numerology

Cecil is an androgynous given name. Notable people with the name include:

• Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895), Irish hymnist
• Cecil Arden (1894–1989), American opera singer (mezzo-soprano/contralto)
• Cecil Banes-Walker (1888–1915), English first-class cricketer
• Cecil Beaton (1904–1980), English photographer and Academy Award-winner
• Cecil Bødker (born 1927), Danish writer
• Cecil Boyd-Rochfort (1887–1983), British thoroughbred racehorse trainer
• Cecil Brooks III (born 1961), American jazz drummer
• Cecil Castellucci (born 1969), American writer and musician
• Cecil Clarke (born 1968), Canadian Legislative Assemblymen
• Cecil Cooper (born 1949), American baseball player and manager
• Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), Irish poet and the British Poet Laureate
• Cecil Blount DeMille (1881-1959), American film director and film producer
• Cecil Dolecheck (born 1951), Iowa State Representative from the 96th District
• Cecil Fielder (born 1963), American baseball player
• Cecil Grigg (1891–1968), American football player
• Cecil Heftel (1924–2010), American politician in Hawaii
• Cecil Humphery-Smith (born 1928), British genealogist and heraldist
• Cecil Mamiit (born 1977), American tennis player representing the Philippines
• Cecil McBee (born 1935), American post bop jazz bassist
• Cecil Mountford (1919–2009), New Zealand rugby league footballer and coach
• Cecil Parker (1897–1971), English character and comedy actor
• Cecil Parkinson (born 1931), British politician
• Cecil Potter (born 1888), former professional manager
• Cecil Frank Powell (1903–1969), British physicist and Nobel laureate
• Cecil Purdy (1906–1979), Australian chess player
• Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902), British imperialist and businessman
• Cecil Saint-Laurent, the nom de plume of Jacques Laurent
• Cecil Sandford (born 1928), British former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
• Cecil Spring-Rice (1859–1918), British diplomat and Ambassador to United States 1912–1918
• Cecil Taylor (born 1929), American pianist and poet
• Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe (1863–1949), British missionary and educationalist, working in Kashmir
• Cecil Williamson (1909–1999), influential English Neopagan Witch
• Cecil Woodham-Smith (1896–1977), British historian and biographer
• Cecil Charles Worster-Drought (1888–1971), English physician

Fictional characters:

• Cecil (Welcome to Night Vale), main character in the Welcome to Night Vale podcast
• Cecil Harvey (Final Fantasy), main character of Square's Final Fantasy IV video game
• Cecil Adams, an author pseudonym in The Straight Dope newspaper column
• Cecil Vyse (A Room with a View), character in E. M. Forster's novel A Room with a View

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English: transferred use of the surname of a great noble family, which rose to prominence in England during the 16th century. The Cecils were of Welsh origin, and their surname represents an Anglicized form of the Welsh given name Seissylt, apparently a Brittonic or Old Welsh form of the Latin name Sextilius, from Sextus ‘sixth’. In the Middle Ages Cecil was occasionally used as an English form of Latin Caecilius (an old Roman family name derived from the byname Caecus ‘blind’), borne by a minor saint of the 3rd century, a friend of St Cyprian.

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