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The name is often derived from the Roman family name Caelius, thought to originate in the Latin caelum ("heaven"). Celia was popular in British pastoral literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, possibly stemming from the ruler of the House of Holiness in Edmund Spenser 's epic poem The Faerie Queene or from a character in William ...
It also ranked among the top 100 names for girls born in Sweden in the early years of the 21st century, and was formerly popular in France. [1] The name "Cecilia" applied generally to Roman women who belonged to the plebeian clan of the Caecilii. Legends and hagiographies, mistaking it for a personal name, suggest fanciful etymologies.
This category is for feminine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language feminine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
Some names are recent creations, such as the now-common female names Saoirse "freedom" and Aisling "vision, dream". Some English-language names are anglicisations of Irish names, e.g. Kathleen from Caitlín and Shaun from Seán. Some Irish-language names derive from English names, e.g. Éamonn from Edmund.
Celina (/ s ə ˈ l iː n ə /) is a feminine given name derived from the Roman name Cecilia, referring to a woman from the Caecilia gens. Alternately, it is considered a form of the name Marceline, a French feminine form of the name Marcel. The French version of the name is Céline. [1]
Cecelia is a variation of the given name Cecilia. People with the name include: Cecelia Adkins (1923–2007, African-American publisher; Cecelia Ager (1902–1981), American film critic and reporter; Cecelia Ahern (born 1981), Irish novelist; Cecelia Akagu (fl. 2010s–2020s), Nigerian Army brigadier general
Cecily is a given name, one of the English forms of Latin Cecilia. Notable people with the name include: Cecily Adams (1958–2004), American actress, casting director, and lyricist; Cecily Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington (1460–1529), English peeress; Cecily Brown (born 1969), British painter; Cecily Lefort (1900–1945), British World War ...
Cecil Banes-Walker (1888–1915), English cricketer; Cecil A. Beasley (1876–1959), American lawyer and politician; Cecil Beaton (1904–1980), English photographer; Cecil Boyd-Rochfort (1887–1983), British racehorse trainer; Cecil Brooks III (born 1961), American drummer; C. T. Caldera, Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army from 1976-1977