Celes
Celes was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,385 among girls’ names; 270 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Celes by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Celes?
#15,385 among girls’ names, 2025
Celes fell from #13,293 in 2015 to #15,385 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.9 to 3.1 per million.
17 babies in 2024, the peak
Celes peaked in 2024, when 17 girls were given it, #6,683 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,385 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,683 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,402 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,173 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,697 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,598 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,644 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,739 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,163 | 9.3 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,293 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 11 | #9,677 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,993 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,442 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,362 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,344 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,984 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,219 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,905 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,879 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,585 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,858 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,617 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,324 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,266 | 5.0 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,407 | 5.1 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,774 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,599 | 6.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,737 | 3.2 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,912 | 2.9 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,960 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,652 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Celes a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Celes has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Celes: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Celes, and how old are they?
An estimated 267 Americans named Celes and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 319 people named Celes (300 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 214 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Celes rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,147 babies since 1880, Celes is the second most given (8.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 31 babies (16%), again the second 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 Celes
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 Celes and names like it
- Compare Celes and KelisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCeles peaked in 2024.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Celes.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Celes alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.