Celestine
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
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
By decade
| Decade | girls named Celestine | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 105 | |
| 1890s | 232 | |
| 1900s | 326 | |
| 1910s | 869 | |
| 1920s | 1,438 | |
| 1930s | 1,161 | |
| 1940s | 1,435 | |
| 1950s | 1,665 | |
| 1960s | 1,038 | |
| 1970s | 463 | |
| 1980s | 237 | |
| 1990s | 265 | |
| 2000s | 184 | |
| 2010s | 195 | |
| 2020s | 147 |
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.
- Mariettapeak 1921
- Jeannettepeak 1917
- Lenorepeak 1926
- Rosettapeak 1948
- Dorcaspeak 1923
- Annicepeak 1918
- Freidapeak 1947
- Norinepeak 1920
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.