Celar
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɛlɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Celar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 20K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 34K
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 86K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
125 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Čelar in HR Croatia, RS Serbia, BA Bosnia & Herzegovina.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Celar 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.
125 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Celar is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In io, to hide, to conceal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, pantry, larder
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, to watch over
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, CELÁR, celare, s. n. Mică încăpere în locuințele țărănești, pentru păstrarea alimentelor și a obiectelor casnice.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Branko Celarb. 1951SISlovene police officer
- Žan Celarb. 1999SISlovenian association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 103 | #4,302 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 44 | #114,634 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 22 | #50,805 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 21 | #15,226 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Celar?
- In the etymology graph, Celoso and Celos are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Celar?
- A machine transcription gives /sɛlɑɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Celar have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 125 people named Celar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled čelar.
- Where is Celar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Celar is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Celar?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 125 people named Celar in 2021, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Celar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/celarThe 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, “Celar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.