# Celso (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/celso/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,345 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,345 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 26 | 3,904 |
| 2012 | 25 | 4,027 |
| 2013 | 35 | 3,137 |
| 2014 | 21 | 4,563 |
| 2015 | 21 | 4,572 |
| 2016 | 25 | 4,118 |
| 2017 | 22 | 4,494 |
| 2018 | 17 | 5,357 |
| 2019 | 21 | 4,665 |
| 2020 | 33 | 3,355 |
| 2021 | 18 | 5,150 |
| 2022 | 20 | 4,879 |
| 2023 | 20 | 4,912 |
| 2024 | 18 | 5,278 |
| 2025 | 17 | 5,431 |

## People named Celso

- Celso Borges, Costa Rican association football player
- Celso Luis Gomes, Brazilian association football player
- Celso Vieira, Brazilian association football player
- Celso Torrelio, Bolivian president (1933-1999)
- Celso Moraes, Brazilian association football player
- Celso Amorim, Brazilian diplomat (born 1942)
- Celso Costantini, Catholic cardinal (1876-1958)
- Celso Emilio Ferreiro, Galician writer (1912-1979)
- Celso Furtado, Brazilian economist (1920-2004)
- Celso Roth, Brazilian footballer and manager
- Celso José Pinto da Silva, Brazilian archbishop (1933–2018)
- Celso Luís Honorato Júnior, Brazilian footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.