Celi

surname · Latin script

Meaning: do lat. Caelius; também redução popular de Miceli

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/seli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Celi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 13K
  • ARArgentina1 in 38K

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.

Ecuador (measured from records)

10,267 people, 2024

Sources
99 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Portuguese

do lat. Caelius; também redução popular de Miceli

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Where in the world(measured from records)

Celi 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.

Where Celi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EC Ecuador#34010,2671 in 1.6K10KCeli59
PE Peru—≈2,400 est.≈1 in 13K—Celi51
IT Italy—≈1,800 est.≈1 in 35KlistedCeli27
AR Argentina—1,1991 in 38K1.2KCeli52
AO Angola—≈920 est.≈1 in 35K—Celi4

10,267 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Celi is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Peru, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Céli, Cèli, Çeli, Cëli, Célī

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Ecuador, Philippines

    Also written Céli, Célî, Cėli, Celî, Cëlï

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Celî, Celí, Çeli, Céli, Ćeli

  • Italian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Peru, Philippines

    Also written Céli, Cèlì, Cèli

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Peru, Ecuador, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Çeli

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Celi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, initialism of compte d'épargne libre d'impôt (“tax-free savings account”): TFSA

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, vocative/accusative/instrumental singular of celis

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, genitive/dative/locative singular of cela

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Esperanto, to aim for, aim at (something)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, inflection of celare:

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

180018501900195020002050Ettore Celi, b. 1822Adolfo Celi, b. 1922Lia Celi, b. 1965Alessandra Celi, b. 1966Alessandro Celi, b. 1969Alessandro Celi, b. 1971Domenico Celi, b. 1973Luis Celi, b. 1992Yuriel Celi, b. 2002

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado/a Celi,Dear Celi, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Celi,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 42 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Celi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)19743—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)19781—

Reference works 4

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

How do you pronounce Celi?
A machine transcription gives /seli/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Celi mean?
Recorded meaning: do lat. Caelius; também redução popular de Miceli
In which country does Celi have the most bearers?
In Ecuador, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Celi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled celi.
Where is Celi most common?
Celi is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.6 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Celi?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 10,267 people named Celi in 2024, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
How common is Celi compared with other names?
In Ecuador, Celi is the 340th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Celi” — the 340th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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