Celena
Celena was given to 37 girls in 2025, #3,917 among girls’ names; 4,789 Americans have been recorded with it since 1890 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,520 Americans named Celena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 27 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Celena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Celena mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Celena is “a female given name.”
Derived from Selene, the Greek goddess of the moon
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Celena?
#3,917 among girls’ names, 2025
Celena rose from #5,155 in 2015 to #3,917 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.6 to 23.0 per million.
202 babies in 1995, the peak
Celena peaked in 1995, when 202 girls were given it, #932 among girls’ names. The 37 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,917 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,480 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,379 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,047 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,426 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,285 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,793 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,253 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,081 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,025 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,155 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,663 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,722 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,861 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,558 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,972 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,375 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,562 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,062 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,097 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 52 | #3,056 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,398 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,737 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,896 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 76 | #2,149 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 87 | #1,938 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 113 | #1,514 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 109 | #1,532 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 127 | #1,351 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 152 | #1,187 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 202 | #932 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 150 | #1,174 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 141 | #1,229 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 89 | #1,686 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 78 | #1,814 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 73 | #1,907 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 59 | #2,093 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 81 | #1,600 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 84 | #1,519 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 84 | #1,485 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,740 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,790 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 70 | #1,586 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 72 | #1,609 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 91 | #1,363 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 73 | #1,586 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 126 | #1,085 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 133 | #1,026 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 195 | #774 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 132 | #965 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 105 | #1,112 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 124 | #985 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 123 | #964 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 124 | #972 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 100 | #1,159 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 91 | #1,225 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 57 | #1,573 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 59 | #1,476 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,123 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,856 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,302 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,834 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,192 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,052 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,765 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,379 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,642 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,495 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,470 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,354 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,801 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,753 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,653 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,665 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,516 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,005 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,742 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,046 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,539 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,825 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,865 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,378 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,672 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,922 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,952 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,194 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,535 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,555 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,601 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,671 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,413 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,188 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,765 | 0.02 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,360 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Celena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Celena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Celena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Celena, and how old are they?
4,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 4,789 Americans ever recorded as Celena. The median Celena alive today is 36 years old; half are between 27 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 4,088 people named Celena (4,084 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,409 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 149 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,420 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,510 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,020 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 404 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Celena born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,198 | 1.1× |
| New York | 5 | #2,155 | 0.5× |
Where Celena is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Celena is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Celena with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 42,743 babies since 1880, Celena is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 1,862 babies (2.0%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Celena
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Celena and names like it
- Compare Celena and CelineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCelena peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Celena since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Celena.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Celena alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.