Meaning not yet researched.
Celia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 351 in 2025. Its best rank was #141 in 1882.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #141 in 1882; #774 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Celia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#774 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1882, at #141.
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Celia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 351 girls in 2025. Peak: #141 in 1882 · most girls in one year: 853 (1915).
In 2025, 351 US girls were named Celia, making it the 774th most common girls’ name of the year, down 39 places from #735 in 2024. That is 32 fewer than the 383 girls named Celia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #141, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 853, in 1915. For comparison, it was #852 in 2015 and #351 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Celia in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 90 babies with the name. In all, 56,716 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 6,559 babies named Celia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,355 US girls were named Celia; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 383. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,579 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Celia ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #442 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Celeste (65,678 babies since 1880), Celine (18,522 babies since 1880), Celina (16,301 babies since 1880) and Zelie (1,264 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zelia, Selia and Celie are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Italian and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zelia (1,177), Selia (739), Celie (519), Cylie (479), Ceili (288), Cellie (93), Celio (73), Zylia (55), Cilia (48), Cellia (46), Cely (45), Celiyah (24), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Celia in the open dataset we use.
Celia is listed as a nickname for Cecilia, Celeste.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 8 | #442 | — |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #446 | #453 |
| Michigan | 18 | #462 | #637 |
| South Carolina | 10 | #481 | #782 |
| New Jersey | 15 | #503 | — |
| Colorado | 9 | #597 | — |
| Ohio | 17 | #599 | #987 |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #601 | #524 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #641 | #531 |
| New York | 25 | #660 | #715 |
| Indiana | 9 | #663 | #782 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #676 | #687 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #730 | — |
| California | 41 | #757 | #1,177 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #759 | #585 |
| Virginia | 9 | #778 | #523 |
| Washington | 7 | #836 | #781 |
| Alabama | 5 | #842 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #867 | #651 |
| Illinois | 9 | #945 | #929 |
| Texas | 30 | #956 | #907 |
| Missouri | 5 | #966 | #988 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,079 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,184 | #1,065 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,239 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 351 | #774 | — | — |
| 2024 | 383 | #735 | — | — |
| 2023 | 332 | #828 | — | — |
| 2022 | 323 | #861 | — | — |
| 2021 | 358 | #791 | — | — |
| 2020 | 345 | #790 | — | — |
| 2019 | 308 | #869 | — | — |
| 2018 | 287 | #932 | — | — |
| 2017 | 324 | #838 | — | — |
| 2016 | 344 | #835 | — | — |
| 2015 | 328 | #852 | — | — |
| 2014 | 356 | #787 | — | — |
| 2013 | 355 | #768 | — | — |
| 2012 | 376 | #740 | — | — |
| 2011 | 372 | #741 | — | — |
| 2010 | 375 | #744 | — | — |
| 2009 | 377 | #753 | — | — |
| 2008 | 390 | #756 | — | — |
| 2007 | 370 | #779 | — | — |
| 2006 | 406 | #699 | — | — |
| 2005 | 410 | #678 | — | — |
| 2004 | 406 | #677 | — | — |
| 2003 | 406 | #653 | — | — |
| 2002 | 388 | #652 | — | — |
| 2001 | 424 | #594 | — | — |
| 2000 | 410 | #619 | — | — |
| 1999 | 409 | #597 | — | — |
| 1998 | 384 | #619 | — | — |
| 1997 | 361 | #619 | — | — |
| 1996 | 336 | #662 | — | — |
| 1995 | 318 | #669 | — | — |
| 1994 | 303 | #692 | — | — |
| 1993 | 343 | #651 | — | — |
| 1992 | 343 | #650 | — | — |
| 1991 | 352 | #635 | — | — |
| 1990 | 391 | #589 | — | — |
| 1989 | 310 | #659 | — | — |
| 1988 | 342 | #590 | — | — |
| 1987 | 330 | #590 | — | — |
| 1986 | 358 | #561 | — | — |
| 1985 | 406 | #500 | — | — |
| 1984 | 502 | #424 | 5 | #6,460 |
| 1983 | 399 | #492 | — | — |
| 1982 | 258 | #681 | — | — |
| 1981 | 295 | #614 | — | — |
| 1980 | 277 | #656 | 5 | #6,391 |
| 1979 | 247 | #690 | — | — |
| 1978 | 218 | #724 | — | — |
| 1977 | 245 | #655 | — | — |
| 1976 | 209 | #705 | — | — |
| 1975 | 206 | #718 | — | — |
| 1974 | 233 | #654 | — | — |
| 1973 | 233 | #645 | — | — |
| 1972 | 216 | #684 | 5 | #5,092 |
| 1971 | 278 | #612 | — | — |
| 1970 | 357 | #531 | — | — |
| 1969 | 237 | #644 | — | — |
| 1968 | 265 | #589 | — | — |
| 1967 | 270 | #581 | — | — |
| 1966 | 302 | #541 | — | — |
| 1965 | 356 | #503 | — | — |
| 1964 | 377 | #502 | — | — |
| 1963 | 447 | #461 | — | — |
| 1962 | 555 | #415 | — | — |
| 1961 | 532 | #426 | — | — |
| 1960 | 540 | #416 | — | — |
| 1959 | 536 | #407 | — | — |
| 1958 | 530 | #401 | — | — |
| 1957 | 519 | #405 | — | — |
| 1956 | 560 | #372 | — | — |
| 1955 | 604 | #350 | — | — |
| 1954 | 548 | #374 | — | — |
| 1953 | 579 | #349 | — | — |
| 1952 | 639 | #320 | — | — |
| 1951 | 578 | #329 | — | — |
| 1950 | 507 | #351 | — | — |
| 1949 | 498 | #349 | — | — |
| 1948 | 489 | #351 | — | — |
| 1947 | 456 | #375 | — | — |
| 1946 | 402 | #380 | — | — |
| 1945 | 377 | #357 | — | — |
| 1944 | 428 | #331 | — | — |
| 1943 | 405 | #357 | — | — |
| 1942 | 407 | #348 | — | — |
| 1941 | 388 | #336 | — | — |
| 1940 | 381 | #327 | — | — |
| 1939 | 373 | #322 | — | — |
| 1938 | 413 | #307 | — | — |
| 1937 | 411 | #305 | 8 | #2,709 |
| 1936 | 419 | #298 | — | — |
| 1935 | 423 | #295 | — | — |
| 1934 | 445 | #290 | 5 | #3,753 |
| 1933 | 430 | #292 | 6 | #3,329 |
| 1932 | 386 | #323 | 6 | #3,430 |
| 1931 | 490 | #282 | 8 | #2,897 |
| 1930 | 559 | #265 | 8 | #3,061 |
| 1929 | 510 | #288 | 5 | #4,054 |
| 1928 | 549 | #279 | — | — |
| 1927 | 607 | #267 | 7 | #3,504 |
| 1926 | 606 | #272 | — | — |
| 1925 | 661 | #258 | — | — |
| 1924 | 662 | #256 | — | — |
| 1923 | 662 | #250 | 6 | #3,884 |
| 1922 | 679 | #253 | — | — |
| 1921 | 690 | #254 | — | — |
| 1920 | 726 | #242 | — | — |
| 1919 | 711 | #237 | — | — |
| 1918 | 791 | #224 | — | — |
| 1917 | 839 | #209 | — | — |
| 1916 | 810 | #214 | — | — |
| 1915 | 853 | #195 | — | — |
| 1914 | 692 | #193 | — | — |
| 1913 | 532 | #200 | — | — |
| 1912 | 519 | #188 | — | — |
| 1911 | 410 | #178 | — | — |
| 1910 | 402 | #169 | — | — |
| 1909 | 324 | #185 | — | — |
| 1908 | 351 | #168 | — | — |
| 1907 | 314 | #178 | — | — |
| 1906 | 289 | #176 | — | — |
| 1905 | 270 | #185 | — | — |
| 1904 | 293 | #170 | — | — |
| 1903 | 278 | #175 | — | — |
| 1902 | 285 | #167 | — | — |
| 1901 | 251 | #174 | — | — |
| 1900 | 316 | #173 | — | — |
| 1899 | 231 | #183 | — | — |
| 1898 | 265 | #174 | — | — |
| 1897 | 260 | #171 | — | — |
| 1896 | 258 | #171 | — | — |
| 1895 | 273 | #158 | — | — |
| 1894 | 254 | #162 | — | — |
| 1893 | 219 | #169 | — | — |
| 1892 | 222 | #167 | — | — |
| 1891 | 187 | #177 | — | — |
| 1890 | 204 | #169 | — | — |
| 1889 | 167 | #176 | — | — |
| 1888 | 196 | #157 | — | — |
| 1887 | 154 | #160 | — | — |
| 1886 | 147 | #159 | — | — |
| 1885 | 153 | #148 | — | — |
| 1884 | 122 | #159 | — | — |
| 1883 | 101 | #166 | — | — |
| 1882 | 126 | #141 | — | — |
| 1881 | 107 | #146 | — | — |
| 1880 | 90 | #152 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).