Celia (given name)

Celia
Pronunciation/ˈsliə/ SEE-lee-ə
GenderFemale
Origin
Language(s)Latin
MeaningHeaven, Caelian Hill, blind
Other names
Related namesCecilia, Cecelia, Celeste, Celestina, Celie

Celia is a given name for females 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.

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, pronounced [uraˈni.a])
  • Cèlia (Catalan)
  • Célia (Portuguese)
  • Ciel, Cielke, Cieltje (Dutch)
  • Síle (Irish, Gaelic)
  • Silje (Norwegian)

People with the name

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 St James, late wife of Evelyn Hugo, The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Celia, fictional character from the movie M3GAN
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