1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 382 girls were named Celia, about 1 in every 4,223.
- It peaked in 1915 with 853 babies, ranked #195.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 56,289 girls have been named Celia since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Celia per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.7Greatest1901–27
- 0.4Silent1928–45
- 0.3Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 14,507 babies, 0.71 per 1,000. Silent: 7,794 babies, 0.38 per 1,000. Boomers: 9,896 babies, 0.28 per 1,000. Gen X: 4,150 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Millennials: 5,585 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Gen Z: 6,263 babies, 0.22 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,042 babies, 0.20 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Borrowed from Latin Caelia, feminine of Roman family name Caelius, probably from caelum (“heaven”). Introduced into English by William Shakespeare in As You Like It. ==== Pronunciation ==== Rhymes: -iːliə ==== Proper noun ==== Celia A female given name from Latin. : Act I: Scene III: Rosalind: But what will you be called? Celia: Something that hath a reference to my state: No longer Celia, but Aliena. ===== Translations =====
- A female given name from Latin.
- Origin
- Latin
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Celia, CC BY-SA 4.0.