Cecil


Gender:
Origin: Latin
779 famous people named Cecil found on Wikipedia.
106185 male, 7682 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 1500-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 65-th in year 1902
Used in: English

Meanings

A male given name: from a Latin word meaning “blind.”.

Cecil is a given name, usually male.

Masc. proper name, from Latin Caecilius (fem. Caecilia), name of a Roman gens, from caecus "blind."

From the Roman name Caecilius, Cecilia, means: blind, dim-sighted.

Famous People: 779 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Cecil Rhodes 1853 British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa
2 Cecil B. DeMille 1881 Film director from the United States
3 Cecil Chubb 1876 Last private owner of Stonehenge
4 Cecil Fielder 1963 American baseball player
5 Cecil Day-Lewis 1904 English poet
6 Cecil Newton 1986 American football player
7 Derek Cecil 1973 American actor
8 Cecil Beaton 1904 British photographer, designer, socialite, writer
9 Cecil Parkinson 1931 British politician
10 Brett Cecil 1986 American baseball player
11 Cecil Price 1938 American police officer
12 Cecil Kellaway 1890 South African actor
13 William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil 1928 American businessman
14 Cecil Chao 1936 Hong Kong billionaire
15 Cecil Shorts III 1987 American football player
16 Cecil Parker 1897 Actor
17 Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore 1605 English peer
18 Cecil Womack 1947 African American singer/songwriter
19 Cecil D. Haney 1955 American admiral
20 Prince Cecil 1991 Indian actor
21 Cecil Jacobson 1936 American fraudster
22 George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil 1925 American businessman
23 Cecil D. Andrus 1931 American politician
24 Henry Cecil 1943 Racehorse trainer
25 Cecil Sharp 1859 Founding father of the folklore revival in England in the early 20th century
26 Cecil Cooper 1949 American baseball player and coach
27 Cecil Adams 2000 American humorist
28 Cecil Frances Alexander 1818 British hymn-writer and poet
29 Cecil von Renner 1990 German actor
30 Chuck Cecil 1964 All-American college football player, professional football player, defensive back, safety, coach
31 Cecil Spring-Rice 1859 British diplomat
32 Jonathan Cecil 1939 British actor
33 Lord David Cecil 1902 British biographer, historian and academic
34 Cecil Lolo 1988 Association footballer
35 Cecil Afrika 1988 Rugby union player
36 Cecil Balmond 1943 Structural engineer, artist
37 Cecil Exum 1962 American/Australian basketball player
38 Cecil H. Underwood 1922 American politician
39 Cecil Martin 1975 Player of American football
40 Cecil Arthur Lewis 1898 British fighter pilot
41 Cecil Clementi 1875 British colonial administrator
42 Cecil McBee 1935 American bassist
43 Cecil O. Samuelson 1941 American University president
44 Cecil Chaudhry 1947 Pakistani academic and activist
45 Cecil Harmsworth King 1901 British businessman
46 Cecil Otter 1980 American rapper
47 Cecil B. Moore 1915 American lawyer
48 Malcolm Cecil 1937 English musician and record producer
49 Charles Cecil 1962 British video game designer and director
50 Cecil Woodham-Smith 1896 British historian
51 Cecil Howard Green 1900 American businessman
52 Cecil E. Harris 1916
53 Cecil Bothwell 1950 North Carolina politician
54 Cecil Aldin 1870 British painter and illustrator
55 Cecil Howard 1931 American film director & adult film performer
56 Cecil Chesterton 1879 British journalist
57 Cecil Havers 1889 British judge
58 Cecil Isbell 1915 American football player and coach
59 Cecil Hoffman 1963 American actress
60 Lord Richard Cecil 1948 British noble
61 Cecil Cunningham 1888 Film actress
62 Cecil Hepworth 1874 English film director and film producer
63 Cecil Castellucci 1969 Canadian musician, American fiction writer
64 Cecil Roth 1899 British historian
65 Cecil Healy 1881 Swimmer
66 Cecil Gant 1913 American musician
67 Cecil Payne 1922 American jazz saxophonist
68 Cecil Murphey 1933 American writer
69 Cecil Jackson-Cole 1901 English entrepreneur and philanthropist
70 Cecil Street 1884 British writer
71 Cecil Kimber 1888 British automobile designer
72 Cecil W. Stoughton 1920 American photographer
73 Cecil Staton 1958 American politician and educator
74 Cecil Mamiit 1976 US tennis player
75 Cecil B. Day 1934 American businessman
76 Cecil Hart 1883 Canadian ice hockey coach
77 Cecil Beresford Ramage 1895 Scottish World War I officer, barrister, and actor
78 Cecil Vandepeer Clarke 1897 Military engineer
79 Cecil Williamson 1909 English neopagan witch
80 Cecil Nyoni 1992 Zimbabwean footballer
81 Kevin Cecil 1969 British screenwriter
82 Cecil Touchon 1956 American artist
83 Cecil Harcourt 1892 Royal Navy admiral
84 Lord Edward Cecil 1867 British Colonial administrator
85 Katie Cecil 1993 American musician
86 Cecil Boyd-Rochfort 1887 British horse trainer
87 Cecil Clementi Smith 1840 British colonial administrator
88 Cecil Heftel 1924 American politician
89 Nora Cecil 1878 American actress
90 Cecil Espy 1963 American baseball player
91 Cecil Meares 1877 British explorer
92 Cecil Mack 1883 American musician
93 Cecil Gordon 1941 American racecar driver
94 Cecil Travis 1913 American baseball player
95 Cecil Bebb 1905 Pilot
96 Cecil Grace 1880 British aviator
97 Cecil Callaghan 1890 Australian Army officer
98 Cecil Burney 1858 Royal Navy admiral of the fleet
99 Cecil Humphreys 1883 British actor
100 Cecil Bridgewater 1942 American jazz trumpeter
101 Cecil Roy 1900 American actress
102 Cecil Graves 1892 Joint Director-General of the BBC
103 Cecil Forsyth 1870 British musician
104 Cecil Skotnes 1926 South African artist
105 Cecil Bell Jr. 1962 American politician
106 Cecil Collins 1908 British artist
107 Cecil Abercrombie 1886 Cricketer
108 Cecil M. Harden 1894 American politician
109 Cecil Jones Attuquayefio 1944 Ghanaian football player and manager
110 Cecil Clarke 1968 Canadian politician
111 Cecil Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth 1869 British politician
112 Cecil Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool 1846 British Liberal politician
113 Cecil H. Bolton 1908 United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
114 Cecil Duckworth 1937 Founder of Worcester Bosch
115 Cecil Williams
116 Cecil C. Steiner 1896 American dentist
117 Cecil Morgan 1898 American lawyer, businessman, and politician
118 Cecil Margo 1915 South African judge
119 Cecil Purdy 1906 Australian chess player
120 Cecil Madigan 1889 Australian geologist and explorer
121 Cecil Bødker 1927 Danish writer
122 Cecil Aronowitz 1916 British classical violist
123 Nigel Cecil 1925 Royal Navy admiral
124 Cecil R. Reynolds 1952 American psychologist
125 Cecil Gould 1918 British art historian
126 Cecil Walker 1924 Northern Irish politician
127 Lord William Cecil 1863 British bishop
128 Cecil R. King 1898 American businessperson and politician
129 Cecil Coles 1888 British composer
130 Cecil FitzMaurice, 8th Earl of Orkney 1919 Scottish peer
131 Cecil J. Picard 1938 American educator and politician
132 Cecil Reddie 1858 British educationalist
133 Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe 1863 British missionary and educationist
134 Cecil Sapp 1978 Player of American football
135 David Cecil English politician
136 Cecil Alec Mace 1894 British psychologist
137 Cecil Upshaw 1942 American baseball player
138 Cecil L'Estrange Malone 1890 British politician
139 Cecil Gray 1895 Scottish music critic and composer
140 Cecil Scott 1905 American musician
141 Cecil G. Murgatroyd 1958 New Zealand politician
142 Cecil Franks 1935 British politician
143 Cecil F. Poole 1914 American judge
144 Cecil Effinger 1914 Composer, oboist, inventor
145 Cecil Thomas 1885 English sculptor and medallist
146 Cecil Sandford 1928 British motorcycle racer
147 Cecil John Kinross 1896 Recipient of the Victoria Cross
148 Cecil Dennis 1931 Liberian politician
149 Cecil Stedman
150 Cecil Taylor 1929 Playwright
151 Cecil Brooks III 1961 American musician
152 Hugh Cecil 1890 English photographer
153 Cecil Waidyaratne 1938 Sri Lankan diplomat (1938-2001)
154 Cecil Moss 1949 South African rugby union player
155 Cecil Roberts 1946 American labor leader
156 Cecil Doggette 1970 Player of American football
157 Cecil Brower 1914 Musician
158 Herbert Cecil Pugh 1898 RAF Chaplain and recipient of the George Cross
159 Cecil Husk 1847 British spiritualist
160 Cecil Dowdy 1945 American college football player
161 Charles P. Cecil 1893 United States Navy admiral
162 Cecil J. Allen 1886 British railway engineer
163 Cecil Rajendra 1941 Malaysian poet and lawyer
164 Cecil Griffiths 1900 British athlete
165 Cecil Harwood 1898 British Teacher and Anthroposophist
166 Cecil Thiré 1892
167 Cecil Potter 1888 English footballer
168 Cecil Trouncer 1898 British actor
169 Cecil Abbott 1924 Commissioner of the New South Wales Police
170 Cecil Blacker 1916 British Army officer and equestrian
171 Cecil Green 1919 Racecar driver
172 Cecil Turner 1944 American football player
173 Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester British politician
174 Roger Cecil 1942 Welsh painter
175 Rex Cecil 1916 American baseball player
176 Cecil Humphery-Smith 1928 British genealogist and heraldist
177 Cecil Alexander 1918 Architect
178 Cecil Levita 1867 British politician
179 Cecil Kishimoto 1990
180 Cecil Gordon Lawson 1851 English landscape painter
181 Cecil R. Richardson United States general
182 Cecil T. Patterson 1930 American martial artist
183 Cecil Pinsent 1884 British garden designer and architect
184 Cecil Leonard Knox 1889 Recipient of the Victoria Cross
185 Cecil Irwin 1942 English footballer and manager
186 Cecil Edward Bingham 1861 British Army general
187 Arthur Cecil 1843 British actor, comedian and theatre manager
188 Lord Eustace Cecil 1834 Member of Parliament
189 Cecil Brown 1850 Hawaiian attorney, politician, businessman, and banker
190 Cecil Johnson 1955 American football player
191 Cecil C. Rousseau 1938 American mathematician
192 Cecil Cooke 1923 Sailor
193 Cecil Parrott 1909 British diplomat, translator, writer and scholar
194 Cecil Hurst 1870 British judge
195 Cecil Knatchbull-Hugessen, 4th Baron Brabourne 1863 English cricketer
196 Cecil Pedlow 1934 Irish rugby union player
197 Cecil Edgar Tilley 1894 Australian-British mineralogist
198 Cecil Foster 1954 Canadian sociologist and writer
199 Cecil J. Shuttleworth 1892 American prison warden
200 Cecil Shaw 1911 English footballer