Entry № 1834 · Latin origin

Celia Celia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SEEL-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Heaven (Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "heaven (celia cruz, queen of salsa)".

Celia is from the Latin caelum (heaven, sky) or alternately a feminine of the Roman Caelius. First Latina featured on a US quarter (2024).

Heaven. Queen of Salsa; ¡Azúcar!

The name in its native script.

Celia
Transliteration
Celia
Pronunciation
/ ˈsiːl.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Celia stands.

Celia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Celias before her.

Real people
Celia Cruz
Cuban-American Queen of Salsa.
1925 – 2003
In fiction
Celia
As You Like It.
c. 1599

Names connected to Celia.

The number behind Celia.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Celia reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.