Celia
Celia is a girl's name that peaked in 1915, when it was the 195th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 774th. About 30,000 Celias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 41.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Celia boys named Celia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 56,716
- Estimated living today
- 30,000
- Median age today
- 41
- Peak year
- 1915
- Best rank
- 195th
- Rank in 2025
- 774th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 56,642 / 74
How old the living Celias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 56,716 babies given the name since 1880, about 30,000 are alive — 53 in every hundred. Roughly 6,200 of them are children and 8,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1984 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
feminine of Roman family name Caelius, probably from caelum (“heaven”). Introduced into English by William Shakespeare in As You Like It.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Celias
- Celia Cruz (1925–2003)Cuban singer
- Celia Johnson (1908–1982)English actress
- Célia Šašić (born 1988)German association football player
- Celia Imrie (born 1952)British actress
- Celia Sánchez (1920–1980)Cuban revolutionary
- Celia Weston (born 1951)American actress
- Célia Xakriabá (born 1989)Brazilian indigenous educator and activist
- Celia Grillo Borromeo (1684–1777)Italian mathematician and scientist
People named Celia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Celia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Celia is most concentrated in New Mexico (2.5×), Texas (2.1×), Arizona (1.8×), Massachusetts (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1915
The most popular girls’ names the year Celia peaked:
Celia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Célia +2 spellings | 63,045 | 25th |
| Spain girls | Celia | 22,220 | 31st |
| Belgium girls | Célia +1 spelling | 4,374 | 42nd |
| Switzerland girls | Célia +1 spelling | 1,042 | 132nd |
| England and Wales girls | Celia | 1,017 | 751st |
| Norway girls | Celia | 190 | 363rd |
| Ireland girls | Celia | 87 | 284th |
| Poland girls | Celia | 35 birth registrations | 428th |
| Scotland girls | Celia | 26 | 436th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Celia | 3 | 397th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Celia: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Celia | 272 | 0.022% | 232nd |
| German girls | Switzerland | Célia | 59 | 0.005% | 582nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Célia | 554 | 0.127% | 30th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Celia | 154 | 0.035% | 55th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Celia | 2 | 0.003% | 170th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Célia | 1 | 0.027% | 4th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Celia is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.30% of children were given it – 44 of them.
Celia: rank by region
In 2025, Celia was given 5 times or more in 6 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Celia | 391 | 13 |
| Flanders | Célia | 416 | 12 |
| Wallonia | Célia | 132 | 19 |
| Wallonia | Celia | 452 | 5 |
| Brussels | Celia | 93 | 11 |
| Brussels | Célia | 120 | 9 |
In 2024, Celia was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Principado de Asturias | Celia | 10 | 28 |
In 2023, Celia was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Małopolskie | Celia | 245 | 2 |
| Mazowieckie | Celia | 269 | 3 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Celia appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (Celia, 93rd), Province of Liège (Célia, 98th), Province of Hainaut (Célia, 117th), Brussels-Capital Region (Célia, 120th) and Province of Flemish Brabant (Celia, 193rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Celia by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 32 | 289th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Celia among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Celia +1 spelling | 145 | 218 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Celia lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 53,557 women called Celia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ciudad Real | Celia | 986 | 3.955 | 57 |
| Segovia | Celia | 310 | 3.932 | 50 |
| Cáceres | Celia | 768 | 3.920 | 50 |
| Badajoz | Celia | 1,298 | 3.852 | 61 |
| Soria | Celia | 165 | 3.721 | 50 |
| Valladolid | Celia | 1,000 | 3.686 | 57 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Celia against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.