Celia
Meaning of Celia
Celia is a shimmering little classic with Latin roots—most scholars trace her to “caelum,” meaning “heaven” or “sky,” while others see her as a sweet spin-off of Cecilia—so she carries both a glimpse of blue above and a whisper of music in her four neat letters. Shakespeare gifted the name to his loyal heroine in As You Like It, and salsa legend Celia Cruz cranked the volume up to eleven, proving it can waltz from an English garden straight onto a Caribbean dance floor without missing a beat. In the United States, Celia has spent the past century in that Goldilocks zone of baby names: never over-exposed, never forgotten, steadily sprinkling 300–400 little stars on the birth charts each year. Pronounced SEE-lee-uh in English and THEL-yah in Spanish, she offers effortless cross-cultural charm, an easy nickname or two (Cece, Lia), and a built-in reminder that the sky really is the limit.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as SEE-lee-uh (/ˈsi.li.ə/)
Spanish
- Pronunced as THEL-yah (/ˈse.lja/)
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Notable People Named Celia
| Celia Cruz was a Cuban singer celebrated as the Queen of Salsa, selling over 30 million records as one of the best-selling Latin artists. |
| Celia Rose Gooding is an American actor and singer who won a Grammy for their Broadway debut in "Jagged Little Pill" and now stars as Nyota Uhura in "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds." |
| Celia Keenan-Bolger is an American actress and singer who won a Tony Award for her role in To Kill a Mockingbird and has earned multiple Tony nominations for other stage performances. |
| Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson was an English actress celebrated for her Academy Award-nominated performance in Brief Encounter. |
| Celia Jiménez Delgado is a former Spanish footballer who played in two World Cups, won NWSL championships, and advocates for STEM education with degrees in aerospace engineering and an MBA. |
| Celia Feinman Adler was an American actress celebrated as the First Lady of the Yiddish Theatre. |
| Celia Barquín Arozamena was a Spanish amateur golfer who won the 2018 European Ladies Amateur Championship. |
| Celia Franca co-founded The National Ballet of Canada in 1951 and served as its artistic director for 24 years. |
| Celia Rees is an English author. |
| Celia Parker Woolley was an American novelist, Unitarian minister, and social reformer who served as president of the Chicago Woman's Club and founded the Frederick Douglass Woman's Club. |
| Celia Calderón de la Barca was a Mexican visual artist celebrated for her engravings, oil paintings, and watercolors and an active member of major art societies. |
| Celia Weston is an American character actress best known for her Independent Spirit Award-nominated role in Dead Man Walking and her part in the TV series Alice. |
| Celia Hammond is an English former model and animal welfare activist renowned for her campaigns against fur and for cat neutering to control feral populations. |
| Celia Zaldumbide Rosales was an Ecuadorian pianist, teacher, and cultural manager celebrated for training young talents and founding art-dissemination centers. |
| Celia Villalobos Talero is a Spanish former People's Party politician who served as Health Minister. |
