Celestine vs Celestino
American parents have registered 10,041 Celestines since 1880, against 2,638 Celestinos. Celestine is still ahead, with 49 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Celestine Celestino
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 145 years in which either name was published, Celestine for 124 years and Celestino for 21 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.
- 1880–1991 Celestine ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1992–2003 Celestino ahead, apart from one short spell
- 2004–2007 Celestine ahead
- 2008–2013 Celestino ahead
- 2014–2025 Celestine ahead
9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Celestine | Celestino | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 10,041 | 2,638 |
| Most in one year | 195 | 46 |
| Babies in 2025 | 49 | 28 |
| Estimated living today | 4,900 | 1,700 |
| Median age today | 66 | 40 |
| Peak year | 1952 | 1922 |
| Best rank | 634th girls | 1,039th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 3,211th | 3,848th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1888 |
| Girls / boys | 9,809 / 232 | 0 / 2,638 |
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 Celestines alive today are over 66; half the Celestinos are over 40. That is 26 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Celestine Louisiana (5.8×), South Carolina (4.8×), Mississippi (4.2×)
- Celestino Texas (9.8×), New Mexico (6.5×), California (1.7×)
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 | Celestine | Celestino |
|---|---|---|
| France | 15,970 | 75 |
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: Celestine and Celestino.