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The CECIL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,758 2804 0.004 44
United States (1880 census) 2,047 2928 0.004 41
Change since 1880 +9711 +124 0 +3
Other Countries
Australia 306 5124 0.002 19
United Kingdom 672 7129 0.001 15
Top States for CECIL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 1,901 297 0.047 470
Ohio 871 1557 0.008 77
California 771 3896 0.002 23
North Carolina 761 1595 0.009 95
Texas 633 3579 0.003 30
Top States for CECIL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 1,901 297 0.047 470
West Virginia 327 852 0.018 181
North Carolina 761 1595 0.009 95
Indiana 535 1386 0.009 88
Ohio 871 1557 0.008 77

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CECIL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CECIL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CECIL in Kentucky than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CECIL by picking someone at random in Kentucky than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CECIL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CECIL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CECIL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CECIL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 406 3.45
White (Hispanic) 169 1.44
Mixed Race 126 1.07
Native American/Alaskan 94 0.8
Asian/Pacific 86 0.73
White (Caucasian) 10,877 92.51

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CECIL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CECIL in historical publications

CECIL. The name of this noble family was written in ancient times, Sitailt, Sicelt, Seycil, Seisil, Cyssell, kc, until William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Queen Elizabeth's famous minister, from a whimsical notion that he was descended fi'om the Roman Cascilii, adopted the present orthography. The iiimily, doubtless of Norman origin, can be traced to Roliert Sitsilt, M'ho in 1091 assisted Robt. Fitz-Hamon in the conquest of Glamorganshire. Collins.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CECIL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CECIL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CECIL

The following words are slight variants of CECIL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.