Celá
surname · Latin script
Celá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Galician Cela, but also from Albanian Çela.
- UYUruguay1 in 16K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 32K
- CZCzechia1 in 84K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
1,576 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cela in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- GalicianCela(measured from records)
- AlbanianÇela(measured from records)
Borrowed from Galician Cela, but also from Albanian Çela.
Sources 3
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Wiktionary
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Celá counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
1,576 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Celá is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, second-person singular voseo imperative of celar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovak, feminine nominative singular of celý
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, obsolete form of salá
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 128 | #13,249 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Celá mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Galician Cela, but also from Albanian Çela. Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese and 1 other source.
- In which country does Celá have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Celá, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Celá most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Celá is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Celá?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,576 people named Celá, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Celá?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cel%C3%A1The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Celá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.