Çelal
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Çelal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 94th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish جلال (celal), from Arabic جَلَال (jalāl).
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 980(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 3.2K
- SYSyria≈1 in 4.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Çelal itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 379 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 980 (inferred from the name graph)
≈84,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Celal in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, CY Cyprus and 2 more, Sell in DE Germany, CN China and Çell in TM Turkmenistan.
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)
- Ottoman Turkishجلالcelal(measured from records)
- Arabicجَلَالjalāl(measured from records)
From Ottoman Turkish جلال (celal), from Arabic جَلَال (jalāl).
Sources 2
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Çelal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #94 | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 980 | #61 | Celal | 105 |
| SY Syria | #620 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Celal | 6 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | listed | Sell | 137 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #853 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Celal | 16 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Sell | 7 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | ÇeLL | 1 |
| CY Cyprus | #161 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Celal | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 110 | 1 in 157K | 110 | Celal | 28 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Çelal mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ottoman Turkish جلال (celal), from Arabic جَلَال (jalāl). Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary.
- Is Çelal a male or female name?
- Çelal is a male 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 Çelal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 84 thousand people named Çelal in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled celal.
- How common is the name Çelal?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 110 people named Çelal, about 1 in 157 thousand residents.
- How common is Çelal compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Çelal is the 94th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A7elalThe 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, “Çelal” — the 94th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.