Celso
Celso was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,429 among boys’ names; 2,345 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,870 Americans named Celso and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 19 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Celso by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Celso mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Celso is “a male given name from Latin” Its etymology gives the sense “high; elevated; noble” (celsus).
From Latin Celsus, from celsus (“high; elevated; noble”). Compare Sicilian Lu Ceusu.
/ˈt͡ʃɛl.so/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Celso?
#5,429 among boys’ names, 2025
Celso fell from #4,570 in 2015 to #5,429 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 10.0 per million.
48 babies in 2006, the peak
Celso peaked in 2006, when 48 boys were given it, #2,517 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,429 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,274 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,908 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,875 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,145 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 33 | #3,353 | 19.1 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,661 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,353 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 22 | #4,490 | 11.9 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,117 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,570 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,559 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 35 | #3,135 | 18.5 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,024 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,902 | 13.7 |
| 2010 | 37 | #3,081 | 19.3 |
| 2009 | 26 | #3,932 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,659 | 14.2 |
| 2007 | 44 | #2,725 | 21.2 |
| 2006 | 48 | #2,517 | 23.4 |
| 2005 | 38 | #2,804 | 19.0 |
| 2004 | 42 | #2,569 | 21.2 |
| 2003 | 42 | #2,477 | 21.3 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,110 | 14.9 |
| 2001 | 41 | #2,387 | 21.1 |
| 2000 | 38 | #2,479 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,405 | 19.3 |
| 1998 | 42 | #2,160 | 22.0 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,167 | 21.2 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,597 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 38 | #2,140 | 20.0 |
| 1994 | 42 | #1,979 | 21.7 |
| 1993 | 29 | #2,516 | 14.8 |
| 1992 | 37 | #2,089 | 18.5 |
| 1991 | 40 | #1,919 | 19.8 |
| 1990 | 35 | #2,086 | 17.0 |
| 1989 | 35 | #2,030 | 17.5 |
| 1988 | 38 | #1,786 | 19.9 |
| 1987 | 25 | #2,276 | 13.4 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,522 | 11.4 |
| 1985 | 32 | #1,838 | 17.3 |
| 1984 | 30 | #1,847 | 16.6 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,801 | 8.9 |
| 1982 | 27 | #2,008 | 14.9 |
| 1981 | 23 | #2,210 | 12.8 |
| 1980 | 27 | #2,010 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,195 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 23 | #2,079 | 14.0 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,927 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 35 | #1,542 | 22.3 |
| 1975 | 23 | #2,011 | 14.7 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,206 | 12.1 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,136 | 12.2 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,169 | 11.1 |
| 1971 | 22 | #1,924 | 12.4 |
| 1970 | 21 | #1,946 | 11.3 |
| 1969 | 16 | #2,143 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 20 | #1,793 | 11.5 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,494 | 6.3 |
| 1966 | 15 | #2,055 | 8.4 |
| 1965 | 22 | #1,675 | 11.8 |
| 1964 | 24 | #1,620 | 12.0 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,317 | 6.4 |
| 1962 | 16 | #2,048 | 7.7 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,249 | 6.6 |
| 1960 | 26 | #1,587 | 12.2 |
| 1959 | 20 | #1,811 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 18 | #1,904 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 24 | #1,638 | 11.1 |
| 1956 | 13 | #2,283 | 6.1 |
| 1955 | 16 | #1,980 | 7.8 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,500 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 25 | #1,518 | 12.7 |
| 1952 | 16 | #1,947 | 8.2 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,064 | 7.4 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,038 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,135 | 7.3 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,232 | 6.8 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,090 | 7.7 |
| 1946 | 17 | #1,771 | 10.5 |
| 1945 | 15 | #1,786 | 11.1 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,822 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,427 | 7.0 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,554 | 6.5 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,689 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,913 | 12.1 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,641 | 7.2 |
| 1938 | 13 | #1,998 | 11.7 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,010 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,666 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,411 | 9.6 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,151 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,575 | 9.1 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,212 | 11.5 |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,550 | 20.2 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,060 | 7.3 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,222 | 12.1 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,718 | 18.1 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,551 | 9.8 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,592 | 9.9 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,613 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,499 | 10.6 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,351 | 11.9 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,510 | 11.0 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,578 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 9 | #2,997 | 8.5 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,418 | 6.9 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,285 | 13.5 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,481 | 12.2 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,323 | 14.0 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,448 | 30.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Celso a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Celso has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 111 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Celso: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Celso, and how old are they?
1,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 80% of the 2,345 Americans ever recorded as Celso. The median Celso alive today is 32 years old; half are between 19 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 6,518 people named Celso (26 women and girls, 6,492 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,832 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 40 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 211 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 282 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 473 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 574 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 286 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Celso born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #2,644 | 3.1× |
Where Celso is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Celso is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 3.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Celso with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,732 babies since 1880, Celso is the most given (86% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 31 babies (55%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Celso
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Celso and names like it
- Compare Celso and KelsoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCelso peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Celso since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Celso: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Celso.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Celso alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.