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Celio

#10,911 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Caelius

Celio has been given to 73 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #10,911 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Celio, 2025

1 in 553,000

Celio over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Celio: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Caelius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Celio means

Celio is a form of Caelius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Caelius.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 73 boys were recorded with the name Celio between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2021; its best national rank was #6,772 in 2021.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,904 in 2015 to #10,911 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Celio?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,911
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Celio sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Celio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Celios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Celio was born before 2018 — so the typical Celio is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
47.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
73
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 47.9% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Celio rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,744
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2021 (12)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,772
2021

Spellings of Celio

Celio is not the most common spelling — Eli is, with 25.8% against Celio's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Celio around the world

Where Celio ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1972–2025
    #2,608
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Celio by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,911
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,772
2021
Peak year
2021
12 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
73
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Celio

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Celio

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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