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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from a derivative of Celi.
  • Italian : (northern Italian) habitational name for someone from Celona, Italian name of Châlons-sur-Marne in France, which was named as the seat of a Gaulish tribe recorded in Latin sources as Catalauni.
  • Italian : (southern Italian) nickname from Greek khelōnē ‘turtle’.

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