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Celestia

#3,585 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly heavenly

Celestia has been given to 1,414 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #3,585 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Celestia, 2025

1 in 78,900

Celestia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Celestia: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly heavenly

Latin

What Celestia means

Celestia may mean “heavenly”, associated with caelestis.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Latin caelestis (“heavenly”), perhaps influenced by celestial. In sense 2 (“Fredericton”), after Celestial City.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Celestia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Celestia is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Celestia comes through Latin caelestis.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,414 girls were recorded with the name Celestia between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 2025; its best national rank was #639 in 1886.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,467 in 2020 to #3,585 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,609 in 2015 to #3,585 in 2025.

How common is Celestia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 78,900
42 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 38,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,585
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
54,713 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Celestia 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 2025 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 54,713 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Celestia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Celestias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Celestia was born before 1956 — so the typical Celestia is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
14.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
757
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Choose a decade

2020s — 14.1% of all recorded uses (200).

Is Celestia 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
+323
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+882
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,024
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.82×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (42)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#639
1886

Spellings of Celestia

Celestia is not the most common spelling — Celeste is, with 78.8% against Celestia's 1.7%.

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 Celestia is used

Across 1910–2025, Celestia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 436,237 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Ohio1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Celestia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Celestia around the world

Where Celestia 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.

  • England & Wales
    2016–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2020–2025
    #5,246
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Celestia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,585
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 882
Best rank ever
#639
1886
Peak year
2025
42 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,414
Count in 2025
42

Names similar to Celestia

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

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Sibling names for Celestia

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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