Celso
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Latin Celsus, ‘elevated, high, lofty’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɛlso/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Celso is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 742(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.9K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2.1K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 742 (inferred from the name graph)
112,663 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Latin Celsus, ‘elevated, high, lofty’.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Celso 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 | #173 | 112,663 | 1 in 1.9K | 131K | Celso | 203 |
| PH Philippines | #481 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 30K | Celso | 67 |
| PE Peru | #431 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Celso | 62 |
| PY Paraguay | #161 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 742 | — | Celso | 30 |
| AO Angola | #131 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Celso | 37 |
| EC Ecuador | #414 | 6,572 | 1 in 2.6K | 6.6K | Celso | 23 |
112,663 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); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; INEC — civil registry 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)
Celso 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.
From the Latin family name Celsus ‘tall’, originally a nickname.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Italian, Dal latino 'altus'; nome di un santo martire milanese.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, In latino, alto. S. Celso, martire a .\lilano rircu il FY roii S. Nazaro. 28 luglio.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
In Italian, forma ital. de Celsus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Italian and Spanish: from the Latin family name (later a personal name) Celsus . This was originally a nickname from the Latin vocabulary word celsus tall, high, lofty. The name was borne by various minor early Roman saints, and it has also been used as a Latinized form of several Irish saints called CEALLAGH .
as a word
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)
- Celso Benigno Luigi Costantinib. 1876ITCatholic cardinal (1876-1958)
- Celso Furtadob. 1920BRBrazilian economist (1920-2004)
- Celso Amorimb. 1942BRBrazilian diplomat (born 1942)
- Celso Bugallo Aguiarb. 1947ESSpanish actor
- Celso Luis Gomesb. 1964BRBrazilian association football player
- Celso Ayalab. 1970PYParaguayan footballer
- Celso Vieirab. 1974BRBrazilian association football player
- Celso Moraesb. 1979BRBrazilian association football player
- Celso Borgesb. 1988CRCosta Rican association football player
- Celso Ortizb. 1989PYParaguayan 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)
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)
Attested in 58 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 131K | #376 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 113K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 112K | #287 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 6.6K | #247 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 327 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 278 | #287 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 7 | — |
| PH Philippines | Philippine given names (Schneider 1905, Project Gutenberg) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Celso mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Celsus, ‘elevated, high, lofty’. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Celso?
- A machine transcription gives /sɛlso/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- How common is the name Celso?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 112,663 people named Celso in 2022, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Celso compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Celso is the 173rd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- Is Celso a male or female name?
- Celso is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Celso?
- In the etymology graph, Celsus is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Celso have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 113 thousand people named Celso, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled celso.
What do you want to know about Celso?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/celsoThe 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, “Celso” — the 173rd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.