Celia
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Celia is a given name for females, as well as a nickname for Cecilia, Celeste, or Celestina. Variants include Celie and Celja (Polish).
The name is often derived from the Roman family name Caelius, thought to originate in the Latin caelum ("heaven") [1]. As a derivative of Cecilia, Celia can also mean "blind" or "musical".
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.' [2]
[edit] Names with similar meanings in other languages
Kūlani ("heavenly", Hawaiian)
[edit] Notable Celias
- Celia Adler, actress
- Celia Barlow, politician
- Celia Birtwell, textile designer
- Celia Correa, field hockey player
- Celia Cruz, singers
- Celia Dropkin, poets
- Celia Farber, journalism
- Celia Fiennes, travel writer
- Celia Franca, founder of National Ballet of Canada
- Celia Green, intellectual and author
- Celia Gregory, actress
- Celia Imrie, actress
- Celia Johnson, actress
- Celia Kitzinger, professor
- Celia Larkin, partner of Prime Minister
- Celia Lovsky, actress
- Celia Rees, author
- Celia S. Friedman, writer
- Celia Sánchez, Cuban revolutionary
- Celia Sankar, writer and motivational speaker
- Celia Thaxter, poetry and stories
- Hurricane Celia, which hit Texas and Cuba in 1970.
[edit] Literary Celias
- Celia in William Shakespeare's As You Like It
- Celia (Quad Hero)
- Celia in Lloyd C. Douglas' The Robe
- Celia in Jonathan Swift's satirical poem, The Lady's Dressing Room
- Celia in the Mandie series by Lois Gladys Leppard
- Celia, the star of Spanish author Elena Fortún's Celia stories.
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