Names

Means “little ashes”, in part from the French name Cendrillon. This is the main character in the folk tale Cinderella about a maltreated young woman who eventually marries a prince. This old story is best known in the English-speaking world from the French author Charles Perrault’s 1697 version. She has other names in other languages, usually with the meaning “ashes”, such as German Aschenputtel and Italian Cenerentola.

Means “plane tree” in Turkish (genus Platanus), derived from Persian چنار (chenar).

Means “born of fire” in Gaelic. This was the name of the first king of the Scots and Picts (9th century). It is often Anglicized as Kenneth.

Variant of Cillian.

Probably from Gaelic ceall meaning “church” combined with a diminutive suffix. This was the name of a 7th-century Irish saint who evangelized in Franconia. He was martyred in Würzburg.

Danish diminutive of Cecilia.

Diminutive of Cecilia.

Slovene diminutive of Cecilia.

Hungarian diminutive of Cecilia.

Portuguese diminutive of Cecilia.