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Celesta

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Celesta has been given to 2,136 babies in the U.S. since 1881. 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 1921, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Celesta, 2024

1 in 557,000

Celesta over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Celesta: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Celesta means

Celesta is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Celesta is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,136 girls were recorded with the name Celesta between 1881 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 47 in 1921; its best national rank was #846 in 1881.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Celesta?

Celesta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Celesta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Celesta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Celestas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Celesta was born before 1942 — so the typical Celesta is around 83 today.

Median birth year
1942
About 83 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
16.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
940
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 16.2% of all recorded uses (347).

Is Celesta 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1921 (47)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#846
1881

Spellings of Celesta

Celesta is not the most common spelling — Celeste is, with 68.4% against Celesta's 2.2%.

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 Celesta is used

Across 1910–2025, Celesta was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 617,959 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Indiana1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 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. Celesta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Celesta around the world

Where Celesta 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.

  • France
    1904–1928
    #1,092
    in 1928
  • South Australia
    1987–1989
    #692
    in 1989

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Celesta by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#846
1881
Peak year
1921
47 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,136
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Celesta

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CelindaCeleneCelestiaKalistaCelestCelenaCelestinaCallistaCalistaShastaCelestialModestaCelinaKallistaCelineCelieCelestineCeliciaCeliseAugustaCelesteCrystaCeleniaCeles

Names with a curve like Celesta

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Celesta, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

OneidaRoselleGlennArlenaOmegaGenovevaAlbertDortheaGennieLouisMauriceZita

Sibling names for Celesta

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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