Celia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: forma feminina de Celio
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/θelja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Celia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Uruguay it is the 84th most common given name.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 781(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 929
- ESSpain1 in 934
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #719 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 443 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 781 (inferred from the name graph)
162,575 people, 2022
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma feminina de Celio
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Celia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #115 | 162,575 | 1 in 1.3K | 185K | Celia | 174 |
| ES Spain | #196 | 53,557 | 1 in 934 | 54K | Celia | 193 |
| US United States | #700 | 49,709 | 1 in 6.7K | 50K | Celia | 443 |
| AR Argentina | #253 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 929 | 367 | Celia | 97 |
| PE Peru | #230 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 967 | — | Celia | 60 |
| PY Paraguay | #143 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 781 | — | Celia | 38 |
| UY Uruguay | #84 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Celia | 39 |
162,575 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Celia 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 English, Probably a form of Cecily.
as a nameIrish first names
In German, seit den i96oer-Jahren vorkommender weibl. Vom. lateinischen Ursprungs, weibli che Form des römischen Geschlechter namens Caelius (vielleicht zu lat. caelum »Himmel«). Heute wird Celia als Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
This is probably a form of Cecily.
as a nameIrish first names
From Latin. See main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Latin, A kind of beer made in Spain
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)
- Celia Lovskyb. 1897ATAustrian actress (1897-1979)
- Celia Johnsonb. 1908GBEnglish actress (1908–1982)
- Celia Cruzb. 1925CUCuban singer (1925–2003)
- Celia Bannermanb. 1944English actress
- Celia Westonb. 1951USAmerican actress (1951-)
- Celia Imrieb. 1952GBBritish actress
- Celia Freijeirob. 1983ESSpanish actress
- Ana de Armasb. 1988CUnot in their usual nameCuban actress (born 1988)
- Tatiana Schlossbergb. 1990USnot in their usual nameAmerican journalist and author (1990–2025)
- Celia Rose Goodingb. 2000USAmerican actor and singer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 98 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 185K | #278 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 163K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 162K | #204 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 54K | #163 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 53K | #89 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 50K | #906 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 612 | #204 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 351 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 199 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 89 | #906 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 11 | #1,981 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Celia mean, and where does it come from?
- forma feminina de Celio Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- What are other forms of the name Celia?
- In the etymology graph, Cecilia, Sheila and Silke are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Cecily.
- How do you pronounce Celia?
- A machine transcription gives /θelja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Celia a male or female name?
- Celia is a female 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 Celia have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 163 thousand people named Celia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled celia.
- How common is the name Celia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 162,575 people named Celia in 2022, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Celia compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Celia is the 115th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Celia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/celiaThe 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, “Celia” — the 115th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.