In 2025, 329 US girls were named Celina, making it the 829th most common girls’ name of the year, up 142 places from #971 in 2024. That is 62 more than the 267 girls named Celina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #423, reached in 1994. That year also had the most girls given the name: 593. For comparison, it was #1,355 in 2015 and #2,196 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Celina in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 12 babies with the name. In all, 16,301 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 4,009 babies named Celina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,312 US girls were named Celina; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 329. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,885 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Celina ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #423 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cecilia (111,688 babies since 1880), Celia (56,716 babies since 1880), Selina (19,225 babies since 1880) and Celine (18,522 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Italian and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.