Celén

surname · Latin script

Celén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variante di Celi.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 17K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 480K
  • SESweden≈1 in 714K

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.

Belgium (measured from records)

684 people, 2008

Sources
6 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Celen in SE Sweden.

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)

Variante di Celi

Sources 1

  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Celén 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 Celén is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BE Belgium6841 in 17K684—2
AR Argentina381 in 1.2M38——
NL Netherlands361 in 480K36—1
BR Brazil331 in 6.4M56——
SE Sweden≈14 est.≈1 in 714K—Celen6
CH Switzerland61 in 1.4M6——

684 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Celén is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Türkiye, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Celen, Çelen, Celeñ, Célen, Çélén

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Celen

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 Celén under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Celén mean, and where does it come from?
Variante di Celi Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani.
In which country does Celén have the most bearers?
In Belgium, the national register counted about 684 people named Celén, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Celén most common?
Celén is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 17 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Celén?
In Belgium, the national register counted 684 people named Celén in 2008, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cel%C3%A9n

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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, “Celén”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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