 It has 463 inhabitants in 2013.The name of ""Puycelci"", or ""Puycelsi"" comes from the Celtic "Celto Dun", a wooden fortress built on a hill, or "oppidum", later transformed into "Podium Celsium" by the Romans.The village itself was founded in a location close to the ancient prehistoric site by Benedictine Monks from the Aurillac Abbey in the 10th century.