Síle
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Síle is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ireland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle Irish Síle, from Anglo-Norman Cecile, from Latin Caecilia.
- IEIreland≈1 in 78K(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania1 in 140K
- DKDenmark≈1 in 2.1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ireland (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)
≈66 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle IrishSíle(measured from records)
- Anglo-NormanCecile(measured from records)
- LatinCaecilia(measured from records)
From Middle Irish Síle, from Anglo-Norman Cecile, from Latin Caecilia.
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Síle counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IE Ireland | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Síle | 44 |
| BR Brazil | 28 | 1 in 7.6M | 59 | — | 1 |
| AL Albania | 22 | 1 in 140K | 22 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 18M | 15 | Síle | 53 |
| DK Denmark | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | 8 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 7.4M | listed | — | 5 |
| SE Sweden | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the babynamen-king-2020 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Síle is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Irish Gaelic form of CECILY , derived in the early Middle Ages from the Anglo-Norman form Cecile . Anglicized forms: SHEILA , She(e)lagh. Cognates: Scottish Gaelic: Sìle, Sìleas, Silis .
as a word
In Irish, a female given name of Irish origin, Anglicized as Sheila, and sometimes translated as Cecilia or Julie/Julia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, dative/locative singular of síla
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, green pepper, chili
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Síle de Valerab. 1954IEIrish Fianna Fáil politician
- Síle Seoigeb. 1979IEIrish television presenter
- Síle Ní Bhraonáinb. 1983IEIrish television presenter
- Síle Burnsb. 1985IECamogie player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Síle mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle Irish Síle, from Anglo-Norman Cecile, from Latin Caecilia. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- What are other forms of the name Síle?
- In the etymology graph, Cecilia, Sheila and Celia are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Síle a male or female name?
- Síle is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Síle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 66 people named Síle in Ireland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled síle.
- How common is the name Síle?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 28 people named Síle in 2022, about 1 in 7.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Síle?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%ADleThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Síle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.