Celeste — #198 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Celeste

The Social Security Administration has registered 63,949 babies named Celeste between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Celeste currently holds the #198 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 1,637 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Celeste performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 10,555 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Celeste shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 12,242 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Celeste in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Celeste in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 63,949 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.