Celis
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma latinizada de Celi
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɛlis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Celis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 3.1K
- PEPeru≈1 in 3.4K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 263 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma latinizada de Celi
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Celis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #306 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 17 | Celis | 139 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Celis | 61 |
| PE Peru | #457 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Celis | 72 |
| VE Venezuela | #436 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 1.3K | Celis | 63 |
| US United States | — | 5,546 | 1 in 60K | 5.5K | Celis | 263 |
| CL Chile | #359 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 1 | Celis | 105 |
| BE Belgium | — | 2,140 | 1 in 5.5K | 2.1K | Celis | 35 |
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Celis 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 Latvian, knee (the joint between thigh and shin and the area around it)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, past of celi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Locītava, kas savieno kājas augšstilbu ar apakšstilbu; arī ceļgals
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Zeķu vai bikšu daļa, kas aptver celi, ceļgalu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Jorge B. Vargasb. 1890PHnot in their usual nameFilipino diplomat, policitian (1890–1980)
- Leopoldo Sánchez Celisb. 1916MXMexican politician
- Pierre Celisb. 1925BEBelgian brewer (1925–2011)
- Stijn Celisb. 1964BEchoreographer, set designer
- Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celisb. 1970ESSpanish politician
- Nicolás Celisb. 1984PEfootballer
- Nicolás Celisb. 1986MXMexican film producer
- Guillermo Celisb. 1993COColombian soccer player
- Alfonso Celisb. 1996MXMexican racing driver
- Richard Celisb. 1996VEassociation 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 42 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.5K | #6,170 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.2K | #6,347 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.6K | #8,343 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2.1K | #465 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 2K | #509 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 17 | #99 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Celis mean, and where does it come from?
- forma latinizada de Celi Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Celis?
- A machine transcription gives /sɛlis/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Celis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Celis in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled celis.
- How common is the name Celis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,546 people named Celis in 2010, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Celis compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Celis is the 306th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Celis?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/celisThe 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, “Celis” — the 306th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.