Girls' name · since 1965
Celes
Celes has 270 recorded births since 1965 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2024 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #16,845 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,254 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 270
- born since 1965
- 2000s
- peak decade
270 babies have been named Celes since 1965, making it today's #15254 girls' name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Celes has been recorded 270 times among girls since 1965, currently ranked #15254 nationally and more common than 12% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2000s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1965 to 2025.
- #16,845 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,254 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 270 born since 1965
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Celes ranks #16,845 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,254 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 270 born since 1965, peaking in the 2000s.
- #16,845 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,254 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 270
- born since 1965
- 2000s
- peak decade
Celes's 270 recorded births place it above 76.67% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Celes compares
270 43rd 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
Celes's all-time total is 28% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Celes | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 270 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 17 | 21 | 19,840 |
Celes's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Celes's SSA record in two at 2009 and the more recent half accounts for 53% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 47%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1965, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2024 peak of 17, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Celes popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1965–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 17
- Annual births at peak, across 61 years of records
Celes by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (86 births, 32% of the file).
2000s was Celes's strongest decade.
86 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 32% of all-time use.
Celes births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s 5
1960s
5 births
- 1970s 5
1970s
5 births
- 1980s 5
1980s
5 births
- 1990s 33
1990s
33 births
- 2000s
2000s
86 births
- 2010s
2010s
81 births
- 2020s
2020s
55 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 86 births (32% of all-time use).
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- Celes's usage has stayed within range of its 2000s decade-level peak (86 total births) through the 2020s (55) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Celes: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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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, 1965–2025 (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 Celes 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.