Celestina vs Celine
American parents have registered 18,522 Celines since 1880, against 2,566 Celestinas. Celine is still ahead, with 1,466 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Celestina Celine
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 129 years in which either name was published, Celine for 106 years and Celestina for 23 years. The lead changed hands 19 times.
- 1899–1901 Celestina ahead
- 1905–1907 Celine ahead
- 1915–1926 Celestina ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1927–2025 Celine ahead, apart from one short spell
14 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Celestina | Celine | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,566 | 18,522 |
| Most in one year | 52 | 1,466 |
| Babies in 2025 | 44 | 1,466 |
| Estimated living today | 1,800 | 17,000 |
| Median age today | 34 | 10 |
| Peak year | 1998 | 2025 |
| Best rank | 2,614th girls | 207th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 3,459th | 207th |
| First recorded | 1892 | 1893 |
| Girls / boys | 2,566 / 0 | 18,522 / 0 |
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 Celestinas alive today are over 34; half the Celines are over 10. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Celestina Texas (8.2×), New Mexico (4.1×), California (2.8×)
- Celine California (2.8×), Florida (2.5×), Nevada (2.2×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Celestina | Celine |
|---|---|---|
| France | 130 | 240,105 Céline |
| Switzerland | 26 | 3,396 Céline |
| England and Wales | 11 | 1,960 |
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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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Celestina and Celine.