Celia is a given name for women of Latin origin, as well as a nickname for Cecilia, Cecelia, Celeste, or Celestina. The name is often derived from the Roman family name Caelius, thought to originate in the Latin caelum ("heaven"). Celia was popular in British pastoral literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, possibly stemming from the ruler of the House of Holiness in Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene or from a character in William Shakespeare's play As You Like It. Celia is also the name of the main character in the series Celia's Journey, by Melissa Gunther. Names with similar meanings in other languages Kūlani ("heavenly", Hawaiian) Silke (German) Sylia (Berber) Shiela (English) Célia (French) Celia (Galician, Italian, Polish, Spanish) Ουρανία ("heavens", Greek, ) Cèlia (Catalan) Célia (Portuguese) Ciel, Cielke, Cieltje (Dutch) Síle (Irish, Gaelic) Silje (Norwegian) People with the name Celia (slave), executed in 1855 Celia Adler, actress Célia Allamargot, squash player Celia Barlow, politician Celia Birtwell, textile designer Celia Chazelle, historian Celia Corres, field hockey player Celia Cruz, singer Celia Douty, murder victim Celia Dropkin, poet Celia W. Dugger, journalism Celia Farber, journalism Celia Fiennes, travel writer Celia Franca, founder of National Ballet of Canada Celia S. Friedman, writer Celia Green, intellectual and author Celia Gregory, actress Celia Grillo Borromeo, scientist Celia Imrie, actress Celia Jiménez (chef), Spanish chef Celia Jiménez (footballer) (born 1995), Spanish footballer Celia Johnson, actress Celia Kaye, actress Celia Keenan-Bolger, actress Celia Kitzinger, professor Celia Larkin, partner of Irish Prime Minister Celia Levetus (1874-1936), Canadian-English author, poet and illustrator Celia Logan, actress and writer Celia Lovsky, actress Celia Rees, author Celia Sánchez, Cuban revolutionary Célia Šašić (born 1988), German footballer Celia Sebiri (1913-2006), American award-winning jewelry designer Celia Thaxter, poetry and stories Celia Walden, novelist and journalist Fictional characters Celia, a character and a bachelorette in Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life and Harvest Moon DS Celia (As You Like It), a character in William Shakespeare's play As You Like It Celia in Lionel Shriver's We Need To Talk About Kevin Celia, the object of Strephon's obsession in Jonathan Swift's The Lady's Dressing Room Celia Brooke, sister of Dorothea Brooke, the central character of George Eliot's Middlemarch (1873) Celia Coplestone, in T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party Celia Gálvez de Montalbán, in Elena Fortún's classic Spanish series of novels which began in 1929 with Celia, lo que dice Celia Hamilton, in the