Cela Surname
Approximately 8,818 people bear this surname
Cela Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greece | 2,104 | 1:5,266 | 550 |
| Spain | 1,655 | 1:28,249 | 2,905 |
| Ecuador | 1,061 | 1:14,991 | 2,290 |
| United States | 591 | 1:613,298 | 49,723 |
| Argentina | 543 | 1:78,717 | 6,646 |
| Italy | 411 | 1:148,800 | 23,328 |
| India | 315 | 1:2,435,128 | 78,411 |
| Philippines | 289 | 1:350,305 | 47,129 |
| Brazil | 283 | 1:756,446 | 27,572 |
| Mexico | 221 | 1:561,657 | 9,608 |
| Nepal | 194 | 1:146,809 | 2,541 |
| England | 107 | 1:520,730 | 32,731 |
| Poland | 106 | 1:358,573 | 40,095 |
| Haiti | 83 | 1:128,722 | 5,810 |
| Uruguay | 81 | 1:42,367 | 4,826 |
| Venezuela | 73 | 1:413,754 | 8,457 |
| Puerto Rico | 72 | 1:49,307 | 1,129 |
| France | 59 | 1:1,125,809 | 120,603 |
| Indonesia | 56 | 1:2,361,593 | 141,864 |
| Belgium | 54 | 1:212,901 | 27,429 |
| DR Congo | 41 | 1:1,801,941 | 95,514 |
| Canada | 40 | 1:921,140 | 70,350 |
| Dominican Republic | 39 | 1:267,511 | 9,432 |
| Portugal | 38 | 1:274,164 | 10,086 |
| Albania | 36 | 1:80,946 | 8,634 |
| Sweden | 34 | 1:289,610 | 20,124 |
| Taiwan | 26 | 1:901,721 | 6,312 |
| Latvia | 26 | 1:78,848 | 11,595 |
| Switzerland | 23 | 1:357,083 | 27,273 |
| Malta | 18 | 1:23,904 | 1,289 |
| Germany | 17 | 1:4,735,615 | 183,652 |
| Australia | 17 | 1:1,587,982 | 78,599 |
| Netherlands | 13 | 1:1,299,014 | 73,030 |
| Austria | 11 | 1:774,130 | 64,097 |
| Cameroon | 9 | 1:2,307,674 | 112,590 |
| Finland | 6 | 1:916,117 | 41,832 |
| Northern Ireland | 5 | 1:369,007 | 15,220 |
| South Africa | 5 | 1:10,835,541 | 204,227 |
| Cuba | 4 | 1:2,880,679 | 10,064 |
| Kosovo | 4 | 1:465,467 | 10,032 |
| North Macedonia | 3 | 1:700,491 | 23,754 |
| Peru | 3 | 1:10,594,708 | 45,902 |
| Panama | 3 | 1:1,304,086 | 13,647 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Luxembourg | 2 | 1:290,271 | 8,611 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Cape Verde | 1 | 1:529,642 | 6,792 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 1:1,363,975 | 22,013 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Montenegro | 1 | 1:639,565 | 9,092 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1:7,174,098 | 302,835 |
The alternate forms: Çela (13,886), Celá (128), Ćela (19), Čela (2) & Ceļā (1) are calculated separately.
Cela (4,618) may also be a first name.
Cela Demographics
Average Cela Salary in
United States
$47,093 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Cela Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cela Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Cela is found in Greece more than any other country/territory. It may also appear as a variant: Çela, Celá, Ćela, Čela or Ceļā. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Cela? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 57,429th most common family name in the world, held by around 1 in 826,440 people. Cela occurs mostly in Europe, where 54 percent of Cela live; 24 percent live in Southeastern Europe and 24 percent live in Helleno-Europe. Cela is also the 100,967th most prevalent forename worldwide, held by 4,618 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Greece, where it is borne by 2,104 people, or 1 in 5,266. In Greece Cela is most frequent in: Central Greece, where 15 percent are found, Attica, where 15 percent are found and Central Macedonia, where 15 percent are found. Apart from Greece Cela exists in 75 countries. It also occurs in Spain, where 19 percent are found and Ecuador, where 12 percent are found.
Cela Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Cela has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the surname grew 8,443 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Cela Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Cela surname are 9.52% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 62.75% registered with the political party.
The amount Cela earn in different countries varies greatly. In Italy they earn 30.97% less than the national average, earning €20,731 per year; in Norway they earn 39.4% less than the national average, earning 209,739 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 78.27% less than the national average, earning R 51,636 per year; in United States they earn 9.14% more than the national average, earning $47,093 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.72% more than the national average, earning $50,043 CAD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
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