Celesta vs Celina

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Celesta Celina

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Celina for 109 years and Celesta for 37 years. The lead changed hands 26 times.

• 1880–1899 Celina ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1900–1904 Celesta ahead
• 1910–1913 Celina ahead
• 1914–1941 Celesta ahead, apart from 3 short spells
• 1942–2025 Celina ahead, apart from 2 short spells

15 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Celestas alive today are over 55; half the Celinas are over 30. That is 25 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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