Celo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: zeal
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈse.lo/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Celo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania≈1 in 110K
- FRFrance≈1 in 610K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)zeal
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Celo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Celo | 33 |
| BR Brazil | 114 | 1 in 1.9M | 114 | — | 1 |
| FR France | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 614K | 7 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 101 | 1 in 3.3M | 128 | Celo | 73 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 703K | — | Celo | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 287K | — | Celo | 10 |
| AL Albania | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 111K | 28 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 418K | — | Celo | 4 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Celo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Kurdish, Magnificent
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Latin, to hide (something from someone), cover, keep a secret, conceal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of ceo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, first-person singular present indicative of celare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovenian, even (implying extreme example)
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)- Alain Celob. 1960FRviolist
- Funda Celob. 2001ATkarateka
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 128 | #136,082 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 114 | #57,408 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 101 | #159,712 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 7 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 does the name Celo mean, and where does it come from?
- zeal Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Celo?
- In the etymology graph, Zeal and Celos are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Celo?
- In Spanish /ˈse.lo/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Celo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Celo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled celo.
- How common is the name Celo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 114 people named Celo, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Celo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/celoThe 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, “Celo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.