Celina
From Latin caelum, "sky", giving Celina the sense of "heavenly". It's a name on the way back up: more girls got it last year than in most years past, though meeting one still counts as memorable.
Celina Pronunciation
Celina is pronounced tse-LEE-nah (/t͡sɛˈlina/).
What Celina means
Where Celina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Celina comes from the Latin caelum, sky or heaven. From that root grew the short meaning the name still carries, "heavenly, of the sky." The same caelum stands behind English celestial and Italian cielo, so Celina belongs to a wide family of sky-words.
Polish keeps its own relatives close. Celestyna is the longer variant, and Celestyn gives the name a masculine form. Five medieval popes chose the Latin name Celestinus from that same root, among them the hermit Pietro, who became Celestine V in 1294 and resigned the office within months.
Picture a class register on the first morning of school. The teacher reads the roll, and one Celina answers among the Zuzannas. Her name-day falls on 21 October, kept for Saint Celina, mother of the bishop Remigius of Reims. The meaning stays where it began, in caelum, the sky.
How many people are named Celina
1 in 1282 women in Poland is named Celina. 17,584 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #290 among female names.
Celina's popularity over time
203 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #181 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2001.
Where Celina is most popular
Celina is most popular in Greater Poland, 65% above the national average (214 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+43%) and West Pomeranian (+34%). It is least common in Świętokrzyskie and Podlaskie, 67% and 52% below average respectively.
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Greater Poland214 girls born+65%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian94 girls born+43%
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West Pomeranian68 girls born+34%
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Pomeranian110 girls born+24%
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Masovian243 girls born+14%
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Łódź83 girls born+9%
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Lower Silesian98 girls born+3%
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Lublin63 girls born+2%
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Lubusz26 girls born−13%
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Opole22 girls born−21%
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Warmian-Masurian34 girls born−21%
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Subcarpathian51 girls born−30%
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Silesian89 girls born−35%
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Lesser Poland78 girls born−43%
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Podlaskie19 girls born−52%
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Świętokrzyskie11 girls born−67%
Celina as a middle name
Celina is a first name for 17,584 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8,843, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 117th, between Faustyna (9,032) and Karina (8,817).
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115
9,194Milena
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116
9,032Faustyna
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1178,843Celina
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118
8,817Karina
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119
8,080Ludwika
When Celina celebrates name day
Celina appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 21 October.