Girls' name · since 2021

Celaena

43 babies named Celaena in U.S. Social Security records since 2021, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.

#36,637 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#8,336 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
43
born since 2021
2020s
peak decade

43 babies have been named Celaena since 2021, making it today's #8336 girls' name.

Celaena has 43 recorded births among girls since 2021, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #8336 as of the latest data, more common than 52% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2021 to 2025.

  • #36,637 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #8,336 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 43 born since 2021
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Celaena ranks #36,637 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,336 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 43 born since 2021, peaking in the 2020s.

#36,637 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#8,336 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
43
born since 2021
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%51.8%
Celaena vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Celaena's 43 recorded births place it above 49.03% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Celaena compares

43 14th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Celaena's all-time total is 89% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Celaena Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 43 376 567,345
Peak-year births 13 21 19,840

Celaena's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Splitting Celaena's full recorded timeline at 2023, 67% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 33% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2022, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 13 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.

Celaena popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2025)
13
Annual births at peak, across 5 years of records
468101214 20212022202320242025 13

Celaena by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (43 births, 100% of the file).

2020s was Celaena's strongest decade.

43 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.

Celaena births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 43 births (100% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Celaena?
Since 2021, Social Security records show 43 babies named Celaena. Across the full SSA archive it ranks #36,637 of 72,339 girls' names by total births. In 2025, it holds #8,336 of 17,297 among girls. Its busiest year on record was 2025, with 13 births.
Where does Celaena sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Celaena ranks #36,637 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,336 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Celaena most popular?
Celaena was most popular in the 2020s decade with 43 total births. The single peak year was 2025.
How long has the name Celaena been used?
Records for Celaena go back to 2021, giving 5 years of history through 2025.
What names are similar to Celaena?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Celeste, Celia, Celine, Celina, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

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Two nationwide peer axes for Celaena: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2021–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Celaena draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.