Clélia

given name · Latin script

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

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

Clélia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Cloelia.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 5.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 7.9K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 11K

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)

9,260 people, 2022

Sources
173 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Clelia in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, PE Peru and 3 more.

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)

Borrowed from Latin Cloelia.

Sources 1

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Clélia 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 Clélia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—9,2601 in 23K11KClelia89
AR Argentina#599≈8,500 est.≈1 in 5.3K6Clelia63
IT Italy—≈5,900 est.≈1 in 11K180Clelia66
FR France—≈2,800 est.≈1 in 24K4.5K—5
PE Peru—≈2,700 est.≈1 in 12K—Clelia44
SV El Salvador#715≈820 est.≈1 in 7.9K—Clelia16
UY Uruguay#4203201 in 11K320Clelia12

9,260 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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Clélia is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Clelia

  • Hungarian name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Clelia

  • Italian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Sweden, Spain

    Also written Clelia, Clèlia, Cloélia, Cloelia

  • Russian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, Italy

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Клелия, Clelia, Kleliia

13 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Clélia Bernardes, b. 1876Clélia Gomes, b. 1964Clélia Anfray, b. 1973Clélia Coutzac, b. 1985Clélia Oliva, b. 1985Clélia Rard-Reuse, b. 1988

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)

InformalBonjour Clélia,Hi Clélia, (English)

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 12 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Clélia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—11K#1,984
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20242.1K#1,155
FR FranceDictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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

What does the name Clélia mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Latin Cloelia. Recorded by Wiktionary.
What are other forms of the name Clélia?
In the etymology graph, Clélie is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Clélia?
A machine transcription gives /klelja/ (IPA) for French.
Is Clélia a male or female name?
Clélia 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 Clélia have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 9.3 thousand people named Clélia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled clelia.
How common is the name Clélia?
In Brazil, the national register counted 9,260 people named Clélia in 2022, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
How common is Clélia compared with other names?
In Uruguay, Clélia is the 420th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cl%C3%A9lia

The 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, “Clélia” — the 420th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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