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Celestine

#3,219 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Caelestinus

Celestine has been given to 10,041 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #3,219 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1952, with 195 recorded.

Babies named Celestine, 2025

1 in 67,700

Celestine over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Celestine: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Caelestinus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Celestine means

Celestine is a form of Caelestinus.

Origin, language, and formation

Celestine is used in English.

Celestine comes through Latin Caelestinus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Caelestinus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,809 girls were recorded with the name Celestine between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 195 in 1952; its best national rank was #493 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,190 in 2020 to #3,219 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,012 in 2015 to #3,219 in 2025.

In the United States, 232 boys were recorded with the name Celestine between 1912 and 1941. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1923; its best national rank was #1,694 in 1913.

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 Celestine?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 67,700
49 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 32,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,219
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
46,897 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Celestine 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 46,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Celestine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Celestines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Celestine was born before 1945 — so the typical Celestine is around 80 today.

Median birth year
1945
About 80 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
17.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,243
People you could plausibly meet
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1950s — 17.0% of all recorded uses (1,665).

Is Celestine 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
+759
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,971
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,793
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.81×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.1%
Peak was 1952 (195)
Years since peak
73
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#493
1880

Spellings of Celestine

Celestine is not the most common spelling — Celeste is, with 82.0% against Celestine's 12.3%.

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 Celestine is used

Across 1910–2025, Celestine was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 23,631 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

020 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 5,000
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 5,882
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 6,667
  4. 4Virginia1 in 7,692
  5. 5District of Columbia1 in 8,333
  6. 6Alabama1 in 11,111
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 16,667
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 16,667

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. Celestine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Celestine around the world

Where Celestine 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
    1996–2025
    #1,719
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1969–1969
    #443
    in 1969
  • France
    1900–2025
    #301
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #934
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1961–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Celestine

People whose public names include Celestine, 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.

Celestine in other languages

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

ČelestinaCoelestina

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

Celestine by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,219
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,971
Best rank ever
#493
1880
Peak year
1952
195 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,809
Count in 2025
49

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,694
1913
Peak year
1923
17 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1941
All-time count
232
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Celestine

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

CelineCelestinaMarcelineJackelineJaquelineBernadineDelphineAugustineGermaineEmmalineMadelaineClementineCoralineCharlineEmmelineKathrineSunshineMadalineKatharineCelestiaJacqulineValentineCelinaCatharine

Names with a curve like Celestine

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

FreidaGildaAnnettaLonnieDorethaGeorgiannaLavernMariettaMadonnaAlfredaNanRetha

Sibling names for Celestine

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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