Cendrillon as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Cendrillon

What is the meaning of the name Cendrillon ?

The baby name Cendrillon is a Female name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced /sɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ — approx. 'SAHN-dree-YOHN' (French).

Cendrillon is French in Origin.

Cendrillon is the French literary name for the fairy-tale heroine, built from cendre "ash, cinder" and the diminutive suffix -illon, yielding the sense "little cinder" or "ash-girl." The form gained currency through Charles Perrault's 1697 tale Cendrillon, ou la Petite Pantoufle de Verre and later French retellings and stage adaptations. As a given name it remains very rare in civil records, read chiefly as poetic or theatrical; modern use tends to be symbolic, chosen for its themes of humility, perseverance, and transformation.

International equivalents include Cinderella (English), Cenicienta (Spanish), Cenerentola (Italian), Aschenputtel (German), Assepoester (Dutch), Askungen (Swedish), Popelka (Czech), and Zolushka (Russian). Related cultural touchstones - the Rossini opera La Cenerentola (1817) and Massenet's Cendrillon (1899) - helped standardize the name's form in their languages. Rare French variants or creative spellings appear occasionally, but Cendrillon itself, with its lilting -illon ending, remains the canonical French version.

⚙ Cendrillon is about as rare as a name gets. We hold just 18 recorded uses of it, from 9 countries.