Highest ever

Celine

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#207
1,466 girls
2015
#823
rank
1950
#1,839
rank

Celine: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,466 in 2025. Its best rank was #207 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Celine in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#207 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
1,466
Since 1880
18,522
Years on record
121

Babies named Celine, every year since 1880

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Girls

Celine: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,466 girls in 2025. Peak: #207 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 1,466 (2025).

About the name Celine

In 2025, 1,466 US girls were named Celine, making it the 207th most common girls’ name of the year, up 21 places from #228 in 2024. That is 118 more than the 1,348 girls named Celine in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #207, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,466. For comparison, it was #823 in 2015 and #1,839 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Celine in 121 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1893 with 5 babies. In all, 18,522 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 6,261 babies named Celine.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,581 US girls were named Celine; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,466. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,096 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Celine ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #67 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 3 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Cecilia (111,688 babies since 1880), Celia (56,716 babies since 1880), Celina (16,301 babies since 1880) and Celene (1,758 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Selin, Zelene and Ceylin are summarised on this page.

Meaning

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.

Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Danish, Dutch and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Selin (1,042), Zelene (105), Ceylin (96), Celin (55), Zeline (22), Celyne (20), Cylin (12), Celyn (12), Celynn (7), Selyne (5), Celenne (5), Zelline (5).

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Celine in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Celine by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 17 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
District of Columbia10#67—
New York158#87#476
California330#90#458
Massachusetts49#106#346
Hawaii7#116—
Florida141#129#573
Rhode Island6#157—
Illinois63#158#820
New Jersey50#161#542
Connecticut19#166—
Michigan50#172#735
Washington42#172#661
New Mexico8#188—
Nevada13#199—
Texas155#222#965
Oregon15#246—
Pennsylvania41#264#890
Virginia31#265#628
Maryland17#310—
Arizona21#332#991
Minnesota17#333#901
Colorado18#339—
Utah13#343—
Georgia30#367#1,087
North Carolina28#384—
Louisiana11#401—
Kansas8#411—
Nebraska5#417—
Wisconsin12#427—
Ohio22#491—
South Carolina9#528—
Missouri10#563—
Tennessee11#658—
Indiana9#664—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
20251,466#207——
20241,348#228——
20231,032#300——
2022941#342——
2021802#390——
2020672#459——
2019639#491——
2018614#505——
2017575#539——
2016492#611——
2015341#823——
2014391#716——
2013345#791——
2012269#947——
2011201#1,197——
2010231#1,078——
2009237#1,078——
2008248#1,055——
2007267#998——
2006241#1,061——
2005263#941——
2004317#799——
2003309#801——
2002302#778——
2001282#823——
2000357#677——
1999394#617——
1998565#456——
1997443#537——
1996271#774——
1995231#846——
1994247#815——
1993157#1,132——
1992122#1,358——
199177#1,834——
199052#2,378——
198943#2,621——
198841#2,605——
198754#2,045——
198638#2,577——
198547#2,205——
198450#2,024——
198335#2,556——
198232#2,842——
198149#2,088——
198039#2,443——
197934#2,628——
197836#2,438——
197732#2,614——
197629#2,670——
197529#2,622——
197429#2,562——
197334#2,273——
197234#2,233——
197142#2,006——
197041#2,021——
196939#2,004——
196833#2,096——
196729#2,221——
196642#1,740——
196564#1,379——
196461#1,445——
196353#1,550——
196271#1,315——
196160#1,436——
196053#1,523——
195955#1,451——
195876#1,222——
195749#1,531——
195637#1,739——
195533#1,845——
195447#1,468——
195344#1,475——
195238#1,561——
195142#1,452——
195027#1,839——
194945#1,379——
194845#1,372——
194732#1,703——
194634#1,511——
194527#1,598——
194423#1,750——
194327#1,629——
194227#1,594——
194123#1,655——
194032#1,316——
193923#1,592——
193840#1,143——
193729#1,362——
193628#1,385——
193534#1,224——
193428#1,377——
193344#1,054——
193247#1,033——
193149#998——
193028#1,466——
192932#1,344——
192849#1,072——
192748#1,098——
192631#1,454——
192519#2,041——
192419#2,068——
192314#2,483——
192212#2,805——
19216#4,567——
192018#2,086——
191922#1,757——
191816#2,216——
191712#2,580——
191516#1,976——
191412#2,030——
191310#2,051——
19127#2,416——
19097#1,798——
19076#1,869——
19067#1,577——
19056#1,733——
19029#1,235——
19006#1,759——
18976#1,409——
18935#1,467——

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).