Cecilia V Cecily

[LizzyMargaret]

Curious to see which people would choose Cecilia Violet or Cecily Violet? With an older sister called Aurora.

I don't like Cecily because I much prefer Cicely. I prefer Celia to Cecelia, and i don't like Cess.

Of the two, Cecelia by a long shot, but I prefer Cicely.

Cecily. But I agree with pp that Cicely is even nicer.

Not a huge fan of Cicely but thank you.

Can't you choose Violet - it's much nicer.

@MerryGrinch Violet is on our list but it’s an honour name so we’re leaning towards using it as a middle name.

Go for Cecelia. The trouble for me is that I just think Cess pit.
I like Celia and Cissy.

I've got a Cecily. Beautiful name.

Sorry I really don’t like both names. Too harsh an S sound to them and they just sound like “silly” to me. When you say “Cecelia’S trousers” for example there’s even more of a harsh S to the name so I can’t get on board with it. It has a hiss sound like a snake

Also whenever I hear the name Cecelia I think of the Suggs song “making love in the afternoon with Cecelia up in my bedroom.... ceceeeelia” 😬

Love violet though

Aurora I love too! What a beautiful name

Cecelia definitely

I'm no help because I love them all ... you cant go wrong!

We do have other names on our list. Cecily and Cecilia are quite high up on it though. I was curious which of the two people would go for as Cecilia was our original thought but I had comments that it was too close to Aurora. Cecily was then added to the mix. I love both equally so I’m torn lol.

Cecelia is lovely, I vote that

I prefer Cecily to Cecilia. But far prefer Violet to both.

Cecilia is lovely

Cecilia is my favourite but I also like Cecily a lot. I personally prefer Celia but if I saw either name I would think "oh lovely"

I btw do not think Cecilia and Aurora are alike in any way. If you yell the names out you use very different pronunciation so would not be an issue IMO.

I unlike many on this post really dont care much for Violet so would never use that over Cecilia

I love both. I think Cecelia over Cecily though. I read a book with a Cecelia that was shortened to lia too

The Cecily I know pronounces it Sicily, so what's the difference with Cicely which I assume is pronounced the same?

Celia or Cicely. BTW the song mentioned up thread is a Simon & Garfunkel song, written and performed by them years before Suggs. It is a great song and I'm showing my age and didn't realise that Suggs had covered the song. As you were .

@Geneve Cecily is Sehs-a-lee and Cicely is Siss-a-lee.

@IwantedtobeEmmaPeel I remember it as a Simon and Garfunkel song too.

Cecily, definitely.

As is very clear from this thread, Cecilia will constantly be misspelled as Cecelia.

And it reminds me of the Simon & Garfunkel song, too which will be stuck in my head all evening now

@DramaAlpaca I’m surprised Cecelia seems to be the default spelling. I always thought Cecilia was the original spelling? The extra e seems a bit unnecessary to me.

Aurora is a light and graceful name. Cecilia doesn't complement it very well in terms of feeling imo. Too formal sounding.

Cecily is lighter and complements it better. Just.

Prefer Cecily. It's a very pretty name. But if you're bothered about having children's names complementing each other, then I think there are names out there that match Aurora better.