Celia (given name)

Celia is a feminine given name of Latin origin, as well as a nickname for Cecilia, Cecelia, Celeste, or Celestina. The name is often derived from the Roman family name Caelius, thought to originate in the Latin caelum ("heaven"). Celia was popular in British pastoral literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, possibly stemming from the ruler of the House of Holiness in Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene or from a character in William Shakespeare's play As You Like It.

Celia could indeed have Berber origins, since it is considered as a variant of the Quinquegentiani princess Cyria, daughter of Flavius Nubel. The name is derived from the Berber word "Tissirt" meaning quern-stone. The name shares the same origins as the historical city Cirta. A popular variant of the name is Silya/Celya.

It is a popular name in Lebanon and Maghreb countries (Algeria more specifically).

Names with similar meanings in other languages

• Kūlani ("heavenly", Hawaiian)
• Silke (German)
• Sylia (Berber)
• Shiela (English)
• Célia (French)
• Celia (Galician, Italian, Polish, Spanish)
• Ουρανία ("heavens", Greek, )
• Cèlia (Catalan)
• Célia (Portuguese)
• Ciel, Cielke, Cieltje (Dutch)
• Síle (Irish, Gaelic)
• Silje (Norwegian)

People with the name

• Celia (slave), executed in 1855
• Celia Adler, actress
• Célia Allamargot, squash player
• Celia Barlow, politician
• Celia Birtwell, textile designer
• Celia Bourihane (born 1995), Algerian volleyball player
• Celia von Bismarck, humanitarian
• Celia Chazelle, historian
• Celia Corres, field hockey player
• Celia Cruz (1925–2003), singer
• Celia Douty, murder victim
• Celia Dropkin, poet
• Celia Duff, Hyrox athlete
• Celia W. Dugger, journalism
• Celia Farber, journalism
• Celia Fiennes, travel writer
• Celia Franca, founder of National Ballet of Canada
• Celia S. Friedman, writer
• Celia Gaynor (born 2000), American soccer player
• Celia Green, intellectual and author
• Celia Gregory, actress
• Celia Grillo Borromeo, scientist
• Celia Imrie, actress
• Celia Jiménez (chef), Spanish chef
• Celia Jiménez (footballer) (born 1995), Spanish footballer
• Celia Johnson, actress
• Celia Kaye, actress
• Celia Keenan-Bolger, actress
• Celia Klemski, secretary for high-ranking officials in the Manhattan Project
• Celia Kitzinger, professor
• Celia Larkin, partner of Irish Prime Minister
• Celia Levetus (1874–1936), Canadian-English author, poet and illustrator
• Celia Logan, actress and writer
• Celia Lovsky, actress
• Celia Magnana (born 1991), Algerian volleyball player
• Celia Maxwell, American infectious disease physician and academic administrator
• Celia Ouikene (born 2003), Algerian Karateka
• Celia Pacquola, Australian comedian
• Celia C. Perez, author
• Celia Rees, author
• Celia Sánchez, Cuban revolutionary
• Célia Šašić (born 1988), German footballer
• Celia Sebiri (1913–2006), American award-winning jewelry designer
• Celia Thaxter, poetry and stories
• Celia Walden, novelist and journalist

Fictional characters

• Celia, a character and a bachelorette in Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life and Harvest Moon DS
• Celia (As You Like It), a character in William Shakespeare's play As You Like It
• Celia in Lionel Shriver's We Need To Talk About Kevin
• Celia, the object of Strephon's obsession in Jonathan Swift's The Lady's Dressing Room
• Celia Brooke, sister of Dorothea Brooke, the central character of George Eliot's Middlemarch (1873)
• Celia Coplestone, in T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party
• Celia Gálvez de Montalbán, in Elena Fortún's classic Spanish series of novels which began in 1929 with Celia, lo que dice
• Celia Hamilton, in the Mandie series by Lois Gladys Leppard
• Celia in Ben Jonson's "Song to Celia" from The Forest (another Celia also appears in Jonson's play Volpone, the wife of the merchant Corvino).
• Celia “Cece” Mack, a main character on Disney Channel series Andi Mack
• Celia Bowen in The Night Circus.
• Celia in Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
• Celia Facilier, a character from Descendants 3
• Celia Mae, Mike Wazowski's girlfriend in the 2001 animated film Monsters Inc.
• Celia B., a minor character and High Five Ghost's love interest in Regular Show
• Celia, fictional character from the movie M3GAN