Name: Celia
Gender: Female
Usage: Celia, of latin origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Celia are in general originating from France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Celia across the world, see Cecilia, Célia.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Celia is: Heaven, Blind.
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Numerology of the first name Celia: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 3. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: expressive, imaginative, sociable, jovial, positive, optimistic, artistic.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Creative, Light-Hearted
Ruling planet: Jupiter
Colors: Purple, Lilac, Mauve
Gemstones: Amethyst
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The name Celia is ranked on the 1,463rd position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 316200 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.005% of the population. The name Celia has five characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Celia for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Celia is 22 November.
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History and Origin
Celia is a given name for females of Latin origin, as well as a nickname for Cecilia, Celeste, or Celestina.
The name is often derived from the Roman family name Caelius, thought to originate in the Latin caelum ("heaven"). As a derivative of Cecilia, Celia can also mean "blind" or "musical".
Celia was popular in British pastoral literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, stemming from Shakespeare's use in the play As You Like It.
Nicknames: Cece Celie Ce
English and Italian: from Latin Caelia, feminine of the old Roman family name Caelius (of uncertain origin, probably a derivative of caelum heaven). The name was not used in the Middle Ages, but was introduced to the English-speaking world as the name of a character in Shakespeare's As You Like It. It is now often regarded as a short form of Cecilia.
Cognate: French: Célie (not now a common given name).
Pet form: Low German, Frisian: Silke.
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