Céala

Céala was the #718 girls' name in Ireland in 2025 (4 babies).

Céala as a girl’s name

  • Northern Ireland
  • Ireland
Céala as a girl’s name, Northern Ireland, IrelandBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1964–2025, for Northern Ireland, Ireland. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.250.50.751197019801990200020102020Ireland
Céala as a girl’s name, Northern Ireland, IrelandBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1964–2025, for Northern Ireland, Ireland. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.250.50.751198020002020
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.
Show the numbers
YearNorthern IrelandIreland
2025—#718 (4)
2024#288 (5)—
2023#391 (3)#445 (8)
2022#418 (3)#458 (8)
2021#266 (6)#517 (7)
2020—#495 (7)
2019#263 (6)#716 (4)
2018#238 (7)—
2017#432 (3)—
2016#353 (4)—

The tide so far

  • Peaked in Ireland in 2023 at #445.
  • Falling over the last five years.
  • First recorded in Ireland in 2019.

How common is it?

about 1 in 5,300 baby girls in the published Ireland list for 2025.

In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.

Spellings

Official statistics count each spelling separately, so we show them side by side rather than adding them up.

SpellingWhereSexLatest rankBabies
CéalaIrelandGirls#7184
CealaNorthern IrelandGirls—too few