Celeste
The girl's name Celeste has been in the national records since 1881, with 65,678 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 188th. About 58,000 Celestes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Celeste boys named Celeste
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 65,678
- Estimated living today
- 58,000
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 188th
- Rank in 2025
- 188th
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 65,621 / 57
How old the living Celestes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 65,678 babies given the name since 1881, about 58,000 are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 16,000 of them are children and 7,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French, from Latin
ultimately from Latin caelestis (“heavenly”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Celestes
- Celeste Holm (1917–2012)American actress
- Celeste Ng (born 1980)American novelist
- Celeste Yarnall (1944–2018)American actress
- Celeste Cortesi (born 1997)Filipino model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Celeste (born 1994)British singer
- Celeste Caeiro (1933–2024)Portuguese restaurant worker during the Carnation Revolution
- Celeste Cid (born 1984)Argentine actress
- Celeste Plak (born 1995)Dutch volleyball player
People named Celeste with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Celeste is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Celeste is most concentrated in Arizona (2.3×), California (2.1×), Nevada (2.0×), New Mexico (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Celeste peaked:
Celeste elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Céleste +2 spellings | 14,245 | 68th |
| Italy girls | Celeste | 9,835 | — |
| Belgium girls | Céleste +2 spellings | 2,402 | 50th |
| England and Wales girls | Celeste | 1,340 | 423rd |
| France boys | Celeste +1 spelling | 825 | 939th |
| Switzerland girls | Céleste +1 spelling | 477 | 322nd |
| Scotland girls | Celeste | 53 | 447th |
| Ireland girls | Celeste | 25 | 556th |
| Switzerland boys | Celeste | 8 | 1,916th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Celeste | 3 | 407th |
| Poland girls | Celeste | 2 birth registrations | 729th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Celeste: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Celeste | 125 | 0.010% | 381st |
| German girls | Switzerland | Céleste | 72 | 0.006% | 603rd |
| German boys | Switzerland | Celeste | 4 | 0.000% | 930th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Céleste | 179 | 0.041% | 118th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Celeste | 44 | 0.010% | 351st |
| French boys | Switzerland | Celeste | 1 | 0.000% | 1,073rd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Celeste | 56 | 0.086% | 31st |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Celeste | 3 | 0.005% | 184th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Céleste | 1 | 0.002% | 180th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Celeste is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.09% of children were given it – 59 of them.
Celeste: rank by region
In 2025, Celeste was given 5 times or more in 4 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Céleste | 49 | 85 |
| Flanders | Celeste | 131 | 45 |
| Wallonia | Céleste | 71 | 35 |
| Brussels | Céleste | 159 | 7 |
In 2024, Celeste was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Celeste | 6 | 3 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Celeste appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (Céleste, 12th), Province of East Flanders (Céleste, 49th), Province of Hainaut (Céleste, 56th), Province of Flemish Brabant (Céleste, 59th), Province of West Flanders (Celeste, 86th), Province of Liège (Céleste, 98th), Province of Antwerp (Céleste, 100th), Province of East Flanders (Celeste, 109th), Province of Antwerp (Celeste, 118th), Brussels-Capital Region (Céleste, 159th) and Province of Flemish Brabant (Celeste, 164th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Celeste by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 4 | 555th |
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 548th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Celeste among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Celeste +1 spelling | 55 | 203 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Celeste lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 2,938 women called Celeste were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huelva | Celeste | 82 | 0.302 | 363 |
| Cádiz | Celeste | 156 | 0.243 | 355 |
| Sevilla | Celeste | 230 | 0.227 | 361 |
| Teruel | Celeste | 14 | 0.210 | 434 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Celeste | 64 | 0.203 | 469 |
| Málaga | Celeste | 167 | 0.182 | 465 |
Listed in 50 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 2 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Celeste against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.