Celene
Celene was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,165 among girls’ names; 1,758 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,630 Americans named Celene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 23 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Celene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Celene?
#6,165 among girls’ names, 2025
Celene rose from #7,702 in 2015 to #6,165 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 11.8 per million.
102 babies in 1993, the peak
Celene peaked in 1993, when 102 girls were given it, #1,528 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,165 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,664 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,324 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,830 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 20 | #5,996 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,290 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,244 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,575 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,162 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,660 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (92)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,702 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,676 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,464 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,520 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,979 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,269 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,138 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,607 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,123 | 14.6 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,708 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,599 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,017 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,283 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,519 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,466 | 15.0 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,009 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,904 | 16.9 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,236 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,457 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,033 | 22.2 |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,456 | 29.6 |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,837 | 43.1 |
| 1993 | 102 | #1,528 | 56.4 |
| 1992 | 85 | #1,740 | 46.1 |
| 1991 | 69 | #1,993 | 36.8 |
| 1990 | 83 | #1,753 | 43.7 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,106 | 18.4 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,027 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,310 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,212 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,109 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,508 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,137 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,742 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,445 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,757 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,252 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,796 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,459 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 16 | #3,985 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 16 | #3,971 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,820 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,918 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,453 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,502 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,740 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,334 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,629 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,504 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,159 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,540 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,536 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,829 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,040 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,042 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,238 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,279 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,563 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,507 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,206 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,812 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,016 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,292 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,846 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,071 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,454 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,250 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,413 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,047 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,645 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,737 | 5.3 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,719 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,023 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,458 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,346 | 4.6 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,338 | 4.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,810 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,509 | 4.7 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,727 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,203 | 7.8 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,377 | 5.0 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,695 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Celene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Celene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 92 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Celene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Celene, and how old are they?
1,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 1,758 Americans ever recorded as Celene. The median Celene alive today is 33 years old; half are between 23 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 2,034 people named Celene (2,024 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,572 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 20 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 140 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 200 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 671 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 395 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 202 |
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 Celene born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,199 | 2.4× |
Where Celene is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Celene is most over-represented in California: since 1917 it was given 2.4 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 Celene with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Celene?
Celene is a less common spelling of Selene: SSA has recorded 1,758 Celene and 9,718 Selene since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 53,058 babies since 1880, Celene is the fifth most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 2,320 babies (<1%), again the fifth 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 Celene
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 Celene and names like it
- Compare Celene and SeleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCelene peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Celene since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Celene.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Celene alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.