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Celestine

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Celestine is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 37 births. Its best rank was 493rd, in 1880, 1902.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
370.00% of girls
Peak year
1952195 births
Best rank
#493first in 1880
Since 1880
9,992people given the name
Babies named Celestine, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

9,760 girls have been named Celestine in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1952, with 195 births.

It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1945, and the 1950s alone account for 17%. It has spent 82 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 232 boys have also been given it, 2.3% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Celestine
1880s105
1890s232
1900s326
1910s869
1920s1,438
1930s1,161
1940s1,435
1950s1,665
1960s1,038
1970s463
1980s237
1990s265
2000s184
2010s195
2020s147

In 1952, its biggest year

Celestine was the 634th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1952 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Deborah and Susan. See all of 1952.

Names that rose and fell with Celestine

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.