# Celesta (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/celesta/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,136 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 2,136 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 8 | 10,921 |
| 2001 | 13 | 7,822 |
| 2002 | 6 | 13,932 |
| 2003 | 10 | 9,815 |
| 2005 | 10 | 10,279 |
| 2006 | 14 | 8,332 |
| 2008 | 7 | 14,134 |
| 2014 | 5 | 17,102 |
| 2016 | 6 | 14,703 |
| 2018 | 8 | 11,616 |
| 2019 | 8 | 11,583 |
| 2020 | 11 | 9,063 |
| 2022 | 8 | 11,417 |
| 2023 | 7 | 12,408 |
| 2024 | 6 | 13,828 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.