Celia

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)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Celia".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
55,902
Peak Births
853
Peak Year
1915
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
66.0%
Current Percentile
33.1%
Peak Rank
#132
Current Rank
#634
Female statistics
Total Births
74
Peak Births
8
Peak Year
1931
First Recorded
1923
Peak Percentile
0.6%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#517
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Celia

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Celia. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 62.1% confident that Celia is pronounced as SEEL-yuh. The next most likely pronunciation is SEE-lee-uh, at 27.6% confidence.

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62.1%
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SEEL-yuh (2 syllables)
Verified
62.1% confidence
S IY1 L Y AH0
SEE-lee-uh (3 syllables)
27.6% confidence
S IY1 L IY0 AH0
SEHL-yuh (2 syllables)
10.3% confidence
S EH1 L Y AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Celia. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Celia, please vote using the thumbs up button.

see-SEEL-yuh (3 syllables)
6 names 61k births
S IY0 S IY1 L Y AH0
SEE-luh (2 syllables)
16 names 15.7k births
S IY1 L AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

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.