Celia (given name)
| Celia | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Latin |
| Meaning | Heaven, Blind, Musical |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Cecilia, Celeste, Celestina, Celie, Celja |
Celia is a given name for females of Latin origin, as well as a nickname for Cecilia, 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, stemming from Shakespeare's use in the play As You Like It. Celia is also the name of the main character in the series Celia's Journey, by Melissa Gunther.
Names with similar meanings in other languages
- Kūlani ("heavenly", Hawaiian)
- Silke (German)
- Célia (French)
- Celia (Polish)
- Ουρανία ("heavens", Greek, pronounced "urania")
- Cèlia (Catalan)
- Celia (Spanish, Galician)
- Célia (Portuguese)
- Síle (Irish, Gaelic)
People with the name
- Celia Adler, actress
- Celia Barlow, politician
- Celia Birtwell, textile designer
- Celia Corres, field hockey player
- Celia Cruz, singer
- Celia Douty, murder victim
- Celia Dropkin, poet
- Celia W. Dugger, journalism
- Celia Farber, journalism
- Celia Fiennes, travel writer
- Celia Franca, founder of National Ballet of Canada
- Celia S. Friedman, writer
- Celia Green, intellectual and author
- Celia Gregory, actress
- Celia Grillo Borromeo, scientist
- Celia Imrie, actress
- Celia Johnson, actress
- Celia Kitzinger, professor
- Celia Larkin, partner of Prime Minister
- Celia Logan, actress and writer
- Celia Lovsky, actress
- Celia McBride, Canadian playwright and filmmaker
- Celia Rees, author
- Celia Sánchez, Cuban revolutionary
- Celia Thaxter, poetry and stories
Literary Celias
- 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 Bowen in The Night Circus.
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