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Celso

#5,429 in 2025Boys' name

High; elevated; noble

Celso has been given to 2,345 babies in the U.S. since 1910. In 2025 it ranked #5,429 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 48 recorded.

Babies named Celso, 2025

1 in 195,000

Celso over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Celso: meaning, origin, and history

High; elevated; noble

Latin

What Celso means

Celso means “high; elevated; noble”, associated with celsus.

Origin, language, and formation

Celso is used in Cebuano, Italian and Portuguese. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Celsa.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Celso is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃɛl.so/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,345 boys were recorded with the name Celso between 1910 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 48 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,448 in 1910.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,353 in 2020 to #5,429 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,570 in 2015 to #5,429 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Celso?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,429
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Celso 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Celso. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Celsos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Celso was born before 1988 — so the typical Celso is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
16.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,946
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 16.1% of all recorded uses (377).

Is Celso 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
−155
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,076
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−859
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.81×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.4%
Peak was 2006 (48)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,448
1910

Spellings of Celso

Celso is not the most common spelling — Nelson is, with 63.2% against Celso's 1.9%.

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.

Where Celso is used

Across 1910–2025, Celso was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 66,345 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 25,000
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Celso has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Celso around the world

Where Celso 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
    1929–2021
    #5,893
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2001–2001
    #581
    in 2001

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Celso

People whose public names include Celso, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Celso in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Celso. Linked forms have their own page here.

CelsCelzjusz

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Celso by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,429
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,076
Best rank ever
#1,448
1910
Peak year
2006
48 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,345
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Celso

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

KelsoCelestinoCelioCeliaCelvinSelsoCelesterAdelsoCelesteCelestineCeltonCeledonioCelestinCelinaCellusCelerinoElso

Names with a curve like Celso

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Celso, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RoqueLauroServandoSilvestreCarlinBaltazarMaximinoDemetrioUbaldoArmenGeronimoGabino

Sibling names for Celso

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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