Celle

loc · Latin script

Meaning, in German: Celle (a town and rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Celle is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany
  • PLPoland
  • FRFrance

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
116 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Celle (a town and rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

How Celle is read(measured from records)

Celle is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • German48%

    Celle (a town and rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French15%

    feminine singular of celui

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Celle counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Celle is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany——Celle26
PL Poland—5Celle3
FR France—253Celle4
US United States—listedCelle116
GB United Kingdom—listedCelle9
AR Argentina—162—1
BR Brazil—139—1

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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Celle is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Cellè, Cellé

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cellé

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Celle 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 Italian, forma pl. de Cella

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Latvian, cell (room in a monastery for sleeping one person)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, a cell (most, if not all, senses)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In enm, cell (dependent monastery)

    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)

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)

Attested in 16 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Celle
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961309—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941258—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991253—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951249—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971225—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921217—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931202—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1901201—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981200—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—162—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1911152—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1891144—

Reference works 2

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 Celle mean, and where does it come from?
Celle (a town and rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Celle have the most bearers?
Celle is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled celle.

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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, “Celle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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