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
Cela occurs more in Greece more than any other country/territory. It may occur as a variant: Çela, Celá, Ćela, Čela or Ceļā. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Cela? popularity and diffusion
It is the 57,429th most frequently occurring last name at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 826,440 people. The surname Cela is mostly found in Europe, where 54 percent of Cela reside; 24 percent reside in Southeastern Europe and 24 percent reside in Helleno-Europe. It is also the 100,967th most commonly held forename world-wide. It is borne by 4,618 people.
This last name is most numerous in Greece, where it is carried by 2,104 people, or 1 in 5,266. In Greece Cela is mostly concentrated in: Central Greece, where 15 percent are found, Attica, where 15 percent are found and Central Macedonia, where 15 percent are found. Not including Greece this surname is found in 75 countries. It is also found in Spain, where 19 percent are found and Ecuador, where 12 percent are found.
Cela Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Cela has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Cela surname increased 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% being registered to vote for 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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