# Celestine (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/celestine/  
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 | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Celestina |
| US babies named this | 10,041 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 232 / 9,809 (98% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 136, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Caelestinus.

## 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 | 8 | 12,400 |
| 2012 | 17 | 7,208 |
| 2013 | 14 | 8,225 |
| 2014 | 19 | 6,508 |
| 2015 | 27 | 5,014 |
| 2016 | 32 | 4,444 |
| 2017 | 26 | 5,078 |
| 2018 | 18 | 6,580 |
| 2019 | 22 | 5,650 |
| 2020 | 24 | 5,193 |
| 2021 | 28 | 4,746 |
| 2022 | 31 | 4,500 |
| 2023 | 27 | 4,897 |
| 2024 | 37 | 3,979 |
| 2025 | 49 | 3,219 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 8 | 3,256 |
| 1922 | 14 | 2,260 |
| 1923 | 17 | 1,955 |
| 1924 | 15 | 2,144 |
| 1925 | 6 | 3,810 |
| 1926 | 9 | 2,948 |
| 1927 | 10 | 2,728 |
| 1928 | 12 | 2,413 |
| 1929 | 5 | 4,053 |
| 1930 | 7 | 3,331 |
| 1932 | 7 | 3,131 |
| 1933 | 10 | 2,395 |
| 1936 | 7 | 2,905 |
| 1939 | 5 | 3,561 |
| 1941 | 6 | 3,197 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | 3,548 |
| 2007 | 4 | 4,294 |
| 2010 | 6 | 3,533 |
| 2013 | 6 | 3,536 |
| 2014 | 7 | 3,160 |
| 2015 | 8 | 2,945 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,367 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,583 |
| 2019 | 7 | 3,151 |
| 2020 | 6 | 3,447 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,942 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,970 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,504 |
| 2024 | 8 | 3,015 |
| 2025 | 17 | 1,719 |

## In other languages

- Polish: celestyn, Celestyna, Celestyn

## People named Celestine

- Célestine Galli-Marié, French mezzo-soprano (1837–1905)
- Célestine Ouezzin-Coulibaly, Burkina Faso politician
- Célestine Ketcha Courtès, Cameroonian politician
- Tina Knowles, American businesswoman and fashion designer, mother of Beyoncé and Solange Knowles
- Toni Gonzaga, Filipino entertainer and entrepreneur (born 1984)

## 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.