Given name & surname · also Galician
Cela
Cela is a surname from Galician, ultimately from Albanian. It is used in English and Spanish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Cela comes from Galician, and ultimately from Albanian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1931. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cela through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 90
- 0 boys · 90 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 331 as a first name in 2020; 847 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cela’s family of names
In English usage, Cela as a surname was borrowed from Çela.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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