Celio
given name · Latin script
Meaning: forma ital. de Caelius
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Brazil (IBGE): listed as male
- Ecuador (INEC, 2024): listed as male
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Venezuela (asosab): listed as female
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/seʎu/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Celio is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 12K
- UYUruguay1 in 25K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
65,640 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)forma ital. de Caelius
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Celio 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 | 65,640 | 1 in 3.2K | 75K | Celio | 5 |
| EC Ecuador | 1,457 | 1 in 12K | 1.5K | — | 6 |
| US United States | 751 | 1 in 443K | 857 | Celio | 164 |
| VE Venezuela | 654 | 1 in 44K | 654 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 137 | 1 in 25K | 180 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 21 | 1 in 243K | 21 | — | — |
65,640 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC — civil registry names; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)Celio is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, first-person singular present indicative of celiare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, masculine singular active past participle of celiti
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Celio Calcagninib. 1479ITItalian humanist
- Celio Secondo Curioneb. 1503ITItalian humanist (1503-1569)
- Celio Piccolominib. 1609ITItalian cardinal
- Célio de Castrob. 1932BRBrazilian politician (1932-2008)
- Célio Taveira Filhob. 1940BRBrazilian association football player (1940-2020)
- Célio Silva do Nascimentob. 1968BRBrazilian footballer and manager
- Célio Juniorb. 1986BRBrazilian footballer and manager
- Célio Gabriel de Almeida Venânciob. 1986BRBrazilian footballer
- Célio Ferreira dos Santosb. 1987BRBrazilian footballer
- Célio Codób. 1987BRBrazilian footballer
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)49 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 75K | #582 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 75K | #177 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 66K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 65K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 65K | #464 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 65K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 63K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 59K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 46K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 27K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.5K | #581 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 735 | #15,357 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 does the name Celio mean, and where does it come from?
- forma ital. de Caelius Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- Is Celio a male or female name?
- Celio is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Brazil (IBGE): listed as male; Ecuador (INEC, 2024): listed as male; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Venezuela (asosab): listed as female. We don't publish a percentage split.
- How do you pronounce Celio?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /seʎu/; in Spanish /θeljo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Celio have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 66 thousand people named Celio, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled celio.
- Where is Celio most common?
- Celio is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Celio?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 65,640 people named Celio in 2022, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Celio?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/celioThe 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, “Celio”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.