Ceallach
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ,2 Traditional Irish Gaelic name, pronounced ‘kell-ach’, said to mean ‘brightheaded’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ceallach is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- FRFrance
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
,2 Traditional Irish Gaelic name, pronounced ‘kell-ach’, said to mean ‘brightheaded’. See Kelly.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ceallach is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, recluse, hermit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Ceallach come from?
- ,2 Traditional Irish Gaelic name, pronounced ‘kell-ach’, said to mean ‘brightheaded’. See Kelly. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Ceallach mean?
- Recorded meaning: ,2 Traditional Irish Gaelic name, pronounced ‘kell-ach’, said to mean ‘brightheaded’.
- Is Ceallach a male or female name?
- Ceallach is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Ceallach?
- In the etymology graph, Kelly and Ceallagh are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ceallach have the most bearers?
- Ceallach is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ceallachThe 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
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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, “Ceallach”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.