Celís

surname · Latin script

Celís is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: forma latinizada de Celi.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 60K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 5.5K
  • ARArgentina1 in 13K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

5,546 people, 2010

Sources
250 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

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 Celis in US United States, ES Spain, BE Belgium.

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)

forma latinizada de Celi

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Celís 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 Celís is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5,5461 in 60K5.5KCelis250
AR Argentina3,5571 in 13K3.6K—2
ES Spain2,3001 in 22K2.3KCelis42
BE Belgium2,1401 in 5.5K2.1KCelis58
UY Uruguay2481 in 14K248——

5,546 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE Uruguay — Apellidos 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)

Celís is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, Belgium, United States

    Also written Celis, Célis, Çelis, Celïs, ̶c̶e̶l̶i̶s̶

1 further group 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Celís under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Celís mean, and where does it come from?
forma latinizada de Celi Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
In which country does Celís have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 5.5 thousand people named Celís, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled celis.
Where is Celís most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Celís is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 5.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Celís?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,546 people named Celís in 2010, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.

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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, “Celís”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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