girls:
55.9k births since 1880
#536 (91st percentile)
boys:
74 births since 1923
#4512 (2nd percentile)
overall:
56k births since 1880
#1001 (87th percentile)
The name Celia is the #1,001 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 55,976 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 87.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #536 (90.6% percentile) for all time with 55,902 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,512 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 74 births since 1923.
Celia has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1923 for boys).
The name Celia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Celia reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 66.0% percentile (ranked #191) with 833 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 1,105 births per million (ranked 53.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Celia ranks #634 for girls (33.1% percentile) with 189 births per million, which is 17.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Celia reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #517) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1984.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Celia".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Celia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.1% confident that Celia is pronounced as SEEL-yuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SEE-lee-uh, at 27.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like S IY1 L Y AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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