Celâl
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Yücelik, ululuk, değer
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Celâl is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 94th most common given name.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 860(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.8K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 2.3Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Celâl itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 379 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 863 (inferred from the name graph)
≈99,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Celal in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, CY Cyprus and 2 more, Sell in US United States, DE Germany and Çell in TM Turkmenistan.
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)Yücelik, ululuk, değer.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Celâl 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #94 | ≈99,000 est. | ≈1 in 863 | register #61 | Celal | 105 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #853 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Celal | 16 |
| SY Syria | #620 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Celal | 6 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 38K | listed | Sell | 137 |
| US United States | — | 1,103as Se | 1 in 302K | 13K | Sell | 379 |
| CY Cyprus | #161 | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Celal | 13 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | ÇeLL | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 110 | 1 in 157K | 110 | Celal | 28 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Celâl Ertuğb. 1913TRTurkish politician
- Celâl Sılayb. 1914TRTurkish poet (1914–1974)
- Celâl Şengörb. 1955TRTurkish geologist (born 1955)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Celâl a male or female name?
- Celâl is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Celâl mean?
- Recorded meaning: Yücelik, ululuk, değer.
- Which countries have the most people named Celâl?
- Mondonomo estimates about 99 thousand people named Celâl in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled celal. After it come Azerbaijan, Syria, Germany and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Celâl?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 110 people named Celâl, about 1 in 157 thousand residents.
- How common is Celâl compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Celâl is the 94th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cel%C3%A2lThe 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, “Celâl” — the 94th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.