Celso
From Latin for "lofty, high", carried in Italian and Spanish. In Poland it's a name most people will never meet: 44 men hold it, and no boy has been given it this century.
Celso Pronunciation
Celso is pronounced TSEL-so (/ˈt͡sɛlsɔ/).
What Celso means
Where Celso comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Celso comes from the Latin adjective celsus, which meant high or lofty. Italian and Spanish speakers kept it as a given name. The Latin word once described raised ground and a lifted head. In Polish the meaning lands as wysoki, wyniosły.
The name found a saint early. Celso, or Celsus, was a young martyr honored in Milan alongside Nazarius, and their relics were reported found by Saint Ambrose in the fourth century. That gave the name a church footing across Italy, and it travelled from there into Spain.
Rome also had Aulus Cornelius Celsus, who wrote De Medicina. His name survives on library shelves. The word and the name walk side by side. So does the sense of height that celsus carried.
How many people are named Celso
1 in 485141 men in Poland is named Celso. 44 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5767 among male names.
Celso as a middle name
Celso is a first name for 44 men in Poland and a middle name for another 6, an 88/12 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4185th, between Celestino (6) and Ceyhun (6).
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#4183 Carel6
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#4184 Celestino6
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#4185 Celso6
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#4186 Ceyhun6
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#4187 Chaminda6