Celie
#8,978 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Celie has been given to 519 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #8,978 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Celie, 2025
1 in 301,000
Celie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Celie?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 146,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,978
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Celie sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Celie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Celies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Celie was born before 1935 — so the typical Celie is around 90 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 16.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 27.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 226
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 16.6% of all recorded uses (86).
Is Celie 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
- +4,847
- Places climbed
- 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
- 73.3%
- Peak was 1916 (15)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 43.4% average annual change
Spellings of Celie
Celie is not the most common spelling — Julie is, with 20.8% against Celie's 0.02%.
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.
Celie around the world
Where Celie 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.
- France1900–2025#5,873in 2025
- South Australia1978–1978#626in 1978
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.
Celie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Celie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Celie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.