Cele
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cele has been given to 129 babies in the U.S. since 1901. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1912, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Cele, 1955
1 in 803,000
Cele over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cele?
Cele had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1955, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1955
- 1 in 803,000
- 5 of 4,014,099 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 391,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1955
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 556,473 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cele sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1955 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 556,473 children born in 1955 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cele. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Celes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cele was born before 1913 — so the typical Cele is around 112 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 60.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 7.8%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 60.5% of all recorded uses (78).
Is Cele rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1912 (13)
- Years since peak
- 113
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.4% average annual change
Spellings of Cele
Cele is not the most common spelling — Helen is, with 54.3% against Cele's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Cele is used
Across 1910–2025, Cele was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 833,760 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cele has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cele around the world
Where Cele ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1989–1989#692in 1989
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cele by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cele
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cele
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.