Meaning not yet researched.
Celena: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 37 in 2025. Its best rank was #774 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #774 in 1977; #3,918 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Celena in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,918 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #774.
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Celena: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 37 girls in 2025. Peak: #774 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 202 (1995).
In 2025, 37 US girls were named Celena, making it the 3,918th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,565 places from #5,483 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 23 girls named Celena in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #774, reached in 1977. The most girls given the name in a single year was 202, in 1995. For comparison, it was #5,157 in 2015 and #4,007 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Celena in 94 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1890 with 5 babies. In all, 4,789 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,253 babies named Celena.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 297 US girls were named Celena; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 43,440 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Celene (1,758 babies since 1880), Selena (59,944 babies since 1880), Selina (19,225 babies since 1880) and Celina (16,301 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Celena in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,918 | — | — |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,483 | — | — |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,382 | — | — |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,050 | — | — |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,430 | — | — |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,287 | — | — |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,794 | — | — |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,254 | — | — |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,082 | — | — |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,026 | — | — |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,157 | — | — |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,665 | — | — |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,724 | — | — |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,862 | — | — |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,559 | — | — |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,973 | — | — |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,376 | — | — |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,563 | — | — |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,062 | — | — |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,098 | — | — |
| 2005 | 52 | #3,060 | — | — |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,402 | — | — |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,740 | — | — |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,900 | — | — |
| 2001 | 76 | #2,153 | — | — |
| 2000 | 87 | #1,942 | — | — |
| 1999 | 113 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 1998 | 109 | #1,534 | — | — |
| 1997 | 127 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 1996 | 152 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1995 | 202 | #935 | — | — |
| 1994 | 150 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 1993 | 141 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 1992 | 89 | #1,690 | — | — |
| 1991 | 78 | #1,820 | — | — |
| 1990 | 73 | #1,911 | — | — |
| 1989 | 59 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 1988 | 81 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 1987 | 84 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 1986 | 84 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 1983 | 70 | #1,586 | — | — |
| 1982 | 72 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 1981 | 91 | #1,363 | — | — |
| 1980 | 73 | #1,586 | — | — |
| 1979 | 126 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1978 | 133 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1977 | 195 | #774 | — | — |
| 1976 | 132 | #965 | — | — |
| 1975 | 105 | #1,112 | — | — |
| 1974 | 124 | #985 | — | — |
| 1973 | 123 | #964 | — | — |
| 1972 | 124 | #972 | — | — |
| 1971 | 100 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1970 | 91 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1969 | 57 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 1968 | 59 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,123 | — | — |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,857 | — | — |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,303 | — | — |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,835 | — | — |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,193 | — | — |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,053 | — | — |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,766 | — | — |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,380 | — | — |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,643 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,496 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,471 | — | — |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,355 | — | — |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,802 | — | — |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,755 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,654 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,667 | — | — |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,517 | — | — |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,007 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,744 | — | — |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,047 | — | — |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,540 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,827 | — | — |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,867 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,380 | — | — |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,674 | — | — |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,924 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,954 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,196 | — | — |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,537 | — | — |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,557 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,603 | — | — |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,672 | — | — |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,415 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,188 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,361 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).