Celita
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/selitɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Celita is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 39K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 111K
- GYGuyana1 in 75K
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)
- Sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- 1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
5,362 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Celita 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 | — | 5,362 | 1 in 39K | 6.6K | Celita | 62 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Celita | 9 |
| US United States | — | 466 | 1 in 714K | 466 | Celita | 74 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Celita | 6 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Celita | 22 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Celita | 9 |
| GY Guyana | — | 10 | 1 in 75K | 10 | — | — |
| CV Cape Verde | #822 | — | — | — | Celita | 4 |
5,362 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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Celita 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 Esperanto, singular past passive participle of celi
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)
- Celita Alamillab. 1943MXMexican researcher and politician
- Celita Schutzb. 1968USAmerican judoka
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 21 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 6.6K | #2,787 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 6.6K | #1,227 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 5.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.3K | #2,615 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 5.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 5.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 4.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 2.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 1.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 1.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 1.1K | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Celita?
- A machine transcription gives /selitɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Celita a male or female name?
- Celita 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 Celita have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 5.4 thousand people named Celita, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled celita.
- Where is Celita most common?
- Celita is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 39 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Celita?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 5,362 people named Celita in 2022, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How common is Celita compared with other names?
- In Cape Verde, Celita is the 822nd most common given name of 878 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Celita?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/celitaThe 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, “Celita” — the 822nd most common given name in Cape Verde. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.