Meaning not yet researched.
Celestine: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 49 in 2025. Its best rank was #493 in 1902.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #493 in 1902; #3,219 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Celestine in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,219 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1902, at #493.
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Celestine: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 49 girls in 2025. Peak: #493 in 1902 · most girls in one year: 195 (1952).
In 2025, 49 US girls were named Celestine, making it the 3,219th most common girls’ name of the year, up 760 places from #3,979 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 37 girls named Celestine in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #493, reached in 1902. The most girls given the name in a single year was 195, in 1952. For comparison, it was #5,014 in 2015 and #628 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Celestine in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 12 babies. In all, 10,041 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 1,665 babies named Celestine.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 294 US girls were named Celestine; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,801 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Selestine, Cellestine and Celestin are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Selestine (41), Cellestine (30), Celestin (11).
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 Celestine 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 | 49 | #3,219 | — | — |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,979 | — | — |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,897 | — | — |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,500 | — | — |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,746 | — | — |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,193 | — | — |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,650 | — | — |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,580 | — | — |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,078 | — | — |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,444 | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,014 | — | — |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,508 | — | — |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,225 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,208 | — | — |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,400 | — | — |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,353 | — | — |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,143 | — | — |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,788 | — | — |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,369 | — | — |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,638 | — | — |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,303 | — | — |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,795 | — | — |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,118 | — | — |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,453 | — | — |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,406 | — | — |
| 2000 | 18 | #5,990 | — | — |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,750 | — | — |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,937 | — | — |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,026 | — | — |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,763 | — | — |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,161 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,030 | — | — |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,277 | — | — |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,719 | — | — |
| 1991 | 38 | #2,991 | — | — |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,445 | — | — |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,694 | — | — |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,937 | — | — |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,146 | — | — |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,070 | — | — |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,489 | — | — |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,086 | — | — |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,710 | — | — |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,665 | — | — |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,882 | — | — |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,523 | — | — |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,535 | — | — |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,437 | — | — |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,674 | — | — |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,342 | — | — |
| 1975 | 31 | #2,521 | — | — |
| 1974 | 48 | #1,823 | — | — |
| 1973 | 64 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 1972 | 54 | #1,656 | — | — |
| 1971 | 56 | #1,642 | — | — |
| 1970 | 72 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 1969 | 89 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 1968 | 69 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1967 | 82 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1966 | 97 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 1965 | 94 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1964 | 109 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 1963 | 129 | #929 | — | — |
| 1962 | 128 | #940 | — | — |
| 1961 | 104 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1960 | 137 | #898 | — | — |
| 1959 | 133 | #904 | — | — |
| 1958 | 146 | #846 | — | — |
| 1957 | 167 | #777 | — | — |
| 1956 | 152 | #806 | — | — |
| 1955 | 161 | #748 | — | — |
| 1954 | 189 | #678 | — | — |
| 1953 | 157 | #725 | — | — |
| 1952 | 195 | #634 | — | — |
| 1951 | 182 | #647 | — | — |
| 1950 | 183 | #628 | — | — |
| 1949 | 183 | #611 | — | — |
| 1948 | 161 | #658 | — | — |
| 1947 | 164 | #650 | — | — |
| 1946 | 125 | #724 | — | — |
| 1945 | 133 | #631 | — | — |
| 1944 | 146 | #610 | — | — |
| 1943 | 136 | #651 | — | — |
| 1942 | 142 | #631 | — | — |
| 1941 | 121 | #645 | 6 | #3,197 |
| 1940 | 124 | #632 | — | — |
| 1939 | 101 | #675 | 5 | #3,561 |
| 1938 | 146 | #565 | — | — |
| 1937 | 86 | #726 | — | — |
| 1936 | 109 | #635 | 7 | #2,905 |
| 1935 | 118 | #600 | — | — |
| 1934 | 101 | #667 | — | — |
| 1933 | 137 | #546 | 10 | #2,395 |
| 1932 | 133 | #565 | 7 | #3,131 |
| 1931 | 122 | #600 | — | — |
| 1930 | 108 | #662 | 7 | #3,331 |
| 1929 | 132 | #593 | 5 | #4,053 |
| 1928 | 127 | #625 | 12 | #2,413 |
| 1927 | 117 | #665 | 10 | #2,728 |
| 1926 | 133 | #619 | 9 | #2,948 |
| 1925 | 157 | #572 | 6 | #3,810 |
| 1924 | 157 | #589 | 15 | #2,144 |
| 1923 | 142 | #616 | 17 | #1,955 |
| 1922 | 158 | #573 | 14 | #2,260 |
| 1921 | 157 | #574 | 8 | #3,256 |
| 1920 | 158 | #571 | 11 | #2,632 |
| 1919 | 125 | #627 | 11 | #2,530 |
| 1918 | 106 | #697 | 16 | #2,012 |
| 1917 | 117 | #630 | 11 | #2,450 |
| 1916 | 128 | #594 | 5 | #4,004 |
| 1915 | 118 | #603 | 11 | #2,332 |
| 1914 | 69 | #692 | 10 | #2,128 |
| 1913 | 67 | #628 | 11 | #1,695 |
| 1912 | 53 | #689 | 8 | #1,912 |
| 1911 | 34 | #742 | — | — |
| 1910 | 52 | #570 | — | — |
| 1909 | 35 | #671 | — | — |
| 1908 | 32 | #680 | — | — |
| 1907 | 34 | #639 | — | — |
| 1906 | 42 | #542 | — | — |
| 1905 | 34 | #603 | — | — |
| 1904 | 24 | #712 | — | — |
| 1903 | 31 | #590 | — | — |
| 1902 | 41 | #493 | — | — |
| 1901 | 23 | #664 | — | — |
| 1900 | 30 | #641 | — | — |
| 1899 | 20 | #707 | — | — |
| 1898 | 34 | #545 | — | — |
| 1897 | 33 | #510 | — | — |
| 1896 | 23 | #654 | — | — |
| 1895 | 23 | #642 | — | — |
| 1894 | 20 | #666 | — | — |
| 1893 | 25 | #562 | — | — |
| 1892 | 14 | #803 | — | — |
| 1891 | 23 | #544 | — | — |
| 1890 | 17 | #643 | — | — |
| 1889 | 17 | #623 | — | — |
| 1888 | 23 | #525 | — | — |
| 1887 | 7 | #962 | — | — |
| 1886 | 7 | #912 | — | — |
| 1885 | 6 | #939 | — | — |
| 1884 | 15 | #545 | — | — |
| 1883 | 11 | #588 | — | — |
| 1882 | 7 | #754 | — | — |
| 1880 | 12 | #493 | — | — |
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).