The name Celia derived from the Roman family name Caelius, which originated from ‘caelum’ for ‘heaven’. It is an Italian and Spanish name, that Shakespeare introduced to the English-speaking world with his play ‘As You Like It’ (1599).
Celia is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Celia isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Celia ranks 746. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Celia. In the entire USA, approximately 43,646 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Celia. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Celia derived from the Roman family name Caelius, which originated from ‘caelum’ for ‘heaven’. It is an Italian and Spanish name, that Shakespeare introduced to the English-speaking world with his play ‘As You Like It’ (1599).
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Celia annualy. This means that there have been girls named Celia who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Celia have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Celia even more than any other time: in 1882, it holds its present record of rank #138 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Celia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Celia has never been ranked higher than #138. In 2022, she rivaled the 790 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 318 girls named Celia were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Celia were born, there have been 342 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Celia is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Celia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Celia, you can simply say:
Cat
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Celia
Celia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
E
L
I
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
E
L
I
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Celia sounds like this:
