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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Latin : Blind one; the sixth; feminine form of Cecil

How Popular Is The Name Cilia

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian and Maltese : nickname for a fat man, from a dialect word cilìa, derived from Greek koilia ‘stomach’.
  • Spanish : unidentified; perhaps a metronymic from a reduced form of the female personal name Cecilia.

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