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How popular is the name Celia?
Births per year, rank history and how many Celias are alive today.
Celia (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 733rd in 2025 with 50 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2024, when 50 babies were given the name, the 751st most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1752 in 2009 before climbing back to the 733rd place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
The Celia you are most likely to meet is around 5 years old - or else around 30: the name has two living generations. Half of all Celias born in England and Wales are between 8 and 30, and there are at least 1,300 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Celia - on average, only one in every 243 such rooms contains a Celia.
How many babies are named Celia each year?
Where does Celia rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Celia most popular?
Celia peaked in 2024, when 50 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Celia?
At least 1,300 people named Celia born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Celia?
Most living Celias are between 8 and 30; the most common age is about 5. There is a second cluster around 30.
Is Celia becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.