Celía
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Celía is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Uruguay it is the 84th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Caelia, name of a Roman gens.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 700(inferred from the name graph)
- MXMexico≈1 in 770
- PEPeru≈1 in 850
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #719 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 443 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 703 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Celia in BR Brazil, US United States, AR Argentina and 6 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 Caelia, name of a Roman gens.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Irish first names
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Celía 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #183 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 771 | 1K | Celia | 169 |
| BR Brazil | #115 | 162,575 | 1 in 1.3K | 185K | Celia | 174 |
| ES Spain | #196 | 53,557 | 1 in 934 | 54K | Celia | 193 |
| AR Argentina | #253 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 879 | 367 | Celia | 97 |
| US United States | #700 | 49,709 | 1 in 6.7K | 50K | Celia | 443 |
| PE Peru | #230 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 849 | — | Celia | 60 |
| PT Portugal | #100 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 886 | listed | Celia | 111 |
| PY Paraguay | #143 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 703 | — | Celia | 38 |
| UY Uruguay | #84 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 987 | — | Celia | 39 |
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); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Celía mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin Caelia, name of a Roman gens. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 4 other sources.
- Is Celía a male or female name?
- Celía 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 Celía have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 170 thousand people named Celía in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled celia.
- How common is the name Celía?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 162,575 people named Celía in 2022, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Celía compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Celía is the 183rd most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Celía?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cel%C3%ADaThe 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, “Celía” — the 183rd most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.