# Celeste (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/celeste/  
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 | French |
| Meaning | “heavenly” |
| Pronunciation | /səˈlɛst/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 65,678 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 57 / 65,621 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,340, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from French Céleste, ultimately from Latin caelestis (“heavenly”).

## What it means

Celeste is grouped under sky.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 671 | 453 |
| 2012 | 655 | 470 |
| 2013 | 654 | 469 |
| 2014 | 679 | 467 |
| 2015 | 638 | 500 |
| 2016 | 632 | 494 |
| 2017 | 675 | 465 |
| 2018 | 720 | 446 |
| 2019 | 840 | 374 |
| 2020 | 876 | 352 |
| 2021 | 1,002 | 327 |
| 2022 | 1,083 | 292 |
| 2023 | 1,137 | 276 |
| 2024 | 1,562 | 197 |
| 2025 | 1,662 | 188 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 5 | 4,002 |
| 1918 | 7 | 3,418 |
| 1956 | 5 | 4,023 |
| 1957 | 7 | 3,288 |
| 1971 | 6 | 4,462 |
| 1981 | 5 | 6,420 |
| 1985 | 6 | 5,903 |
| 1987 | 6 | 6,211 |
| 1991 | 5 | 8,383 |
| 2008 | 5 | 12,841 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 34 | 1,015 |
| 2012 | 38 | 955 |
| 2013 | 41 | 900 |
| 2014 | 44 | 859 |
| 2015 | 50 | 775 |
| 2016 | 38 | 955 |
| 2017 | 60 | 683 |
| 2018 | 61 | 657 |
| 2019 | 51 | 749 |
| 2020 | 72 | 550 |
| 2021 | 64 | 603 |
| 2022 | 67 | 576 |
| 2023 | 90 | 444 |
| 2024 | 88 | 467 |
| 2025 | 96 | 423 |

## People named Celeste

- Celeste Holm, American actress (1917–2012)
- Celeste Ng, American novelist
- Celeste Yarnall, American actress (1944-2018)
- Celeste Cortesi, Filipino model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Celeste, British singer
- Celeste Cid, Argentine actress
- Celeste O'Connor, American actress
- Celeste Star, American pornographic actress
- Celeste Plak, Dutch volleyball player
- Céleste Mogador, French dancer, playwright and novelist (1824-1909)
- Celeste Carballo, Argentinian musician and singer
- Celeste Maloy, American lawyer and Utah land rights advocate

## 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.