Celesta
Celesta was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 2,136 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,000 Americans named Celesta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (47% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 39 and 71.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Celesta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Celesta mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Celesta is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Celesta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,823, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
47 babies in 1921, the peak
Celesta peaked in 1921, when 47 girls were given it, #1,115 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #13,823 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,403 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,412 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,058 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,578 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,611 | 4.7 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,698 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,096 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,129 | 3.7 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,329 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (126)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 10 | #10,274 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,810 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,926 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,815 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,913 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,824 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,339 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,458 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,217 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,729 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,229 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,712 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,552 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,652 | 6.9 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,884 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,713 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,868 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,213 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,665 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,587 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,698 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,743 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,875 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,758 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,253 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,479 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,776 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,926 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 24 | #2,980 | 16.5 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,690 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,135 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,419 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,807 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,040 | 12.6 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,335 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,244 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 18 | #2,979 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,279 | 8.9 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,278 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,605 | 12.1 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,714 | 10.9 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,939 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,474 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,523 | 11.4 |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,058 | 14.8 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,869 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 25 | #2,224 | 12.2 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,201 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 27 | #2,068 | 13.8 |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,247 | 11.8 |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,178 | 12.2 |
| 1952 | 29 | #1,864 | 15.6 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,322 | 10.6 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,130 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,146 | 12.3 |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,016 | 13.5 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,826 | 15.8 |
| 1946 | 20 | #2,098 | 12.7 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,762 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,792 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,723 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,686 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,031 | 14.1 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,693 | 19.2 |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,955 | 15.5 |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,033 | 14.5 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,686 | 19.7 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,747 | 18.3 |
| 1935 | 26 | #1,454 | 24.8 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,845 | 17.2 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,559 | 22.8 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,695 | 19.7 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,884 | 16.9 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,821 | 17.8 |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,452 | 25.1 |
| 1928 | 33 | #1,344 | 28.6 |
| 1927 | 33 | #1,408 | 27.7 |
| 1926 | 31 | #1,451 | 26.2 |
| 1925 | 44 | #1,163 | 36.1 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,447 | 26.4 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,561 | 23.2 |
| 1922 | 37 | #1,289 | 30.8 |
| 1921 | 47 | #1,115 | 38.1 |
| 1920 | 33 | #1,379 | 27.5 |
| 1919 | 32 | #1,372 | 28.3 |
| 1918 | 42 | #1,153 | 36.3 |
| 1917 | 31 | #1,313 | 28.7 |
| 1916 | 40 | #1,115 | 38.3 |
| 1915 | 39 | #1,078 | 39.6 |
| 1914 | 31 | #1,082 | 40.7 |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,368 | 28.8 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,489 | 25.1 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,995 | 16.7 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,469 | 12.6 |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,160 | 37.4 |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,369 | 29.9 |
| 1907 | 14 | #1,043 | 43.9 |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,338 | 30.5 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,318 | 30.9 |
| 1904 | 17 | #884 | 61.7 |
| 1903 | 12 | #1,039 | 45.8 |
| 1902 | 11 | #1,081 | 41.7 |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,019 | 46.0 |
| 1900 | 15 | #977 | 50.0 |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,185 | 34.8 |
| 1896 | 11 | #1,005 | 46.2 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,135 | 38.5 |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,008 | 44.9 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,304 | 28.2 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,305 | 28.3 |
| 1891 | 10 | #901 | 53.9 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,361 | 26.3 |
| 1889 | 9 | #913 | 50.5 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,158 | 33.6 |
| 1887 | 7 | #961 | 48.0 |
| 1881 | 5 | #846 | 54.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Celesta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Celesta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 126 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Celesta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Celesta, and how old are they?
1,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 47% of the 2,136 Americans ever recorded as Celesta. The median Celesta alive today is 56 years old; half are between 39 and 71.
The 2020 Census counted 1,053 people named Celesta (1,046 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,092 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 88 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 323 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 262 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 177 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 89 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 59 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 69,228 babies since 1880, Celesta is the second most given (3.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,704 babies recorded by SSA was a Celesta (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Celesta
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 Celesta and names like it
- Compare Celesta and CelesteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sCelesta peaked in 1921.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Celesta since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Celesta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Celesta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.