Celé
surname · Latin script
Meaning: past participle of celer
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Celé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 309K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.2M
- SESweden1 in 1.3M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- 1 in 309K (inferred from the name graph)
175 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cele in AR Argentina, ZA South Africa, BR Brazil.
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)
past participle of celer
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Celé 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 175 | 1 in 1.2M | 175 | Cele | 38 |
| AR Argentina | 147 | 1 in 309K | 147 | Cele | 38 |
| SE Sweden | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | — | — | — | Cele | 26 |
175 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Celé is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, first-person singular preterite indicative of celar
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Celé mean, and where does it come from?
- past participle of celer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Celé have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 175 people named Celé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cele.
- Where is Celé most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Celé is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 309 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Celé?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 175 people named Celé, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Celé?
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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%A9The 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, “Celé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.