Celia
A Latin name meaning "heavenly", from the word for sky. Most Poles have never met one: it stays rare and is given less each year.
Celia Pronunciation
Celia is pronounced TSEL-yah (/ˈt͡sɛlja/).
What Celia means
Where Celia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Celia comes from Latin. It traces back to the Roman family name Caelius, which scholars tie to caelum, the word for sky and heaven. From that root comes the short meaning, heavenly.
English and Spanish speakers both took up the name early. Shakespeare gave it to a character in As You Like It, the loyal cousin who follows Rosalind into the forest of Arden. Not long after, Ben Jonson wrote his "Song: To Celia," the lyric that begins "Drink to me only with thine eyes." The printed name carried well in both languages.
In a Polish class register you might now find Celia sitting near Cecylia, close in sound though separate in root. The meaning stays simple. Celia means heavenly, from the Latin caelum.
When Celia celebrates name day
Celia appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 27 July.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Celia
1 in 173414 women in Poland is named Celia. 130 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2919 among female names.
Celia's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where Celia is most popular
Celia is most popular in Lower Silesian, 473% above the national average (5 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Łódź (+184%) and Lesser Poland (+59%).
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Lower Silesian5 girls born+473%
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Łódź2 girls born+184%
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Lesser Poland2 girls born+59%
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Masovian3 girls born+52%
Celia as a middle name
Celia is a first name for 130 women in Poland and a middle name for another 34, a 79/21 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1188th, between Carmela (34) and Denisa (34).
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#1186 Anneliese34
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#1187 Carmela34
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#1188 Celia34
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#1189 Denisa34
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#1190 Ellie34