Celester — unisex name

What the Data Says About Celester

The Social Security Administration has registered 221 babies named Celester between 1902 and 1965, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Celester currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1965. The name reached its historical peak in 1936, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Celester is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 181 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Celester performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 45 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Celester shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Celester 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 221 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.