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Celestina

#3,475 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Caelestinus

Celestina has been given to 2,566 babies in the U.S. since 1892. In 2025 it ranked #3,475 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 52 recorded.

Babies named Celestina, 2025

1 in 75,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Celestina: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Caelestinus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Celestina means

Celestina is a feminine form of Caelestinus.

Origin, language, and formation

Celestina is used in English, Italian, Occitan and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Caelestinus and Celestine.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Celestina is pronounced /θelesˈtina/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,566 girls were recorded with the name Celestina between 1892 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 52 in 1998; its best national rank was #1,075 in 1894.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,635 in 2020 to #3,475 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,156 in 2015 to #3,475 in 2025.

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 Celestina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 75,300
44 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 36,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,475
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
52,226 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Celestina 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 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Celestina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Celestinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Celestina was born before 1978 — so the typical Celestina is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
12.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,819
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 12.7% of all recorded uses (325).

Is Celestina 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
+1,569
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,160
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,681
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.69×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.6%
Peak was 1998 (52)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,075
1894

Spellings of Celestina

Celestina is not the most common spelling — Celestine is, with 59.3% against Celestina's 15.5%.

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 Celestina is used

Across 1910–2025, Celestina was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 54,710 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 20,000
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 100,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7New 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. Celestina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Celestina around the world

Where Celestina 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
    2006–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1905–2025
    #4,918
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1956–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Celestina

People whose public names include Celestina, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Celestina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Celestina. Linked forms have their own page here.

CelestynaCelesztinaCoelestina

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Celestina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,475
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,160
Best rank ever
#1,075
1894
Peak year
1998
52 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,566
Count in 2025
44

Names similar to Celestina

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

CelinaCelestineCelestiaAugustinaMichelinaKatharinaCelestialMarcelinaJosephinaKatherinaSeraphinaCarmelinaKhristinaErnestinaAntoninaCaterinaEkaterinaWilheminaFaustinaNicolinaCelindaSerafinaClementinaAgustina

Names with a curve like Celestina

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

CandelariaAmadaMarcelinaSimonaSoledadAntoninaNanaNedaJesusMatildeCleopatraNicoletta

Sibling names for Celestina

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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