Given name & surname · also Spanish
Celaya
Celaya is a surname from Spanish, ultimately from Basque. It is used in English and Spanish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Celaya comes from Spanish, and ultimately from Basque.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2012. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Celaya through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 39
- 0 boys · 39 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 12
- #8,465 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 12 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 8,465 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,458 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.
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