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Clelia

Girls' name

Form of Cloelia

Clelia has been given to 530 babies in the U.S. since 1903. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1920, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Clelia, 2024

1 in 557,000

Clelia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Clelia: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Cloelia

Latin

What Clelia means

Clelia is a form of Cloelia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Clelia is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈklɛ.lja/ for Clelia.

Origin, language, and formation

Clelia is used in English and Italian. Its origins include Latin.

Clelia comes through Latin Cloelia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cloelia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Clelia is pronounced /ˈklɛ.lja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 530 girls were recorded with the name Clelia between 1903 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1920; its best national rank was #1,462 in 1903.

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 Clelia?

Clelia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Clelia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Clelia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Clelias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Clelia was born before 1933 — so the typical Clelia is around 92 today.

Median birth year
1933
About 92 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
189
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1920s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (130).

Is Clelia 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1920 (21)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,462
1903

Spellings of Clelia

Clelia is not the most common spelling — Amelia is, with 36.9% against Clelia's 0.07%.

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 Clelia is used

Across 1910–2025, Clelia was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 903,334 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Clelia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Clelia around the world

Where Clelia 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.

  • England & Wales
    2021–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1906–2025
    #984
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1961–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Clelia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,462
1903
Peak year
1920
21 that year
First recorded
1903
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
530
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Clelia

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

CleonaAzeliaCalliaMahliaAmyliaClemenceKayliaEmyliaAreliaClellaCleotaDhaliaAtaliaOreliaAneliaCletusJahliaCleaEmaliaJamiliaOmeliaLaeliaNahliaCleva

Sibling names for Clelia

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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