Celestia
Celestia was given to 42 girls in 2025, #3,585 among girls’ names; 1,414 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Celestia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Celestia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Celestia is “a female given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the sense “heavenly” (caelestis).
From Latin caelestis (“heavenly”), perhaps influenced by celestial. In sense 2 (“Fredericton”), after Celestial City.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Celestia?
#3,585 among girls’ names, 2025
Celestia rose from #9,609 in 2015 to #3,585 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 26.1 per million.
42 babies in 2025, the peak
Celestia peaked in 2025, when 42 girls were given it, #3,585 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 38 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #3,585 | 26.1 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,908 | 23.5 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,582 | 18.7 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,308 | 20.1 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,861 | 16.5 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,467 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,461 | 18.5 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,370 | 18.8 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,376 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,487 | 13.5 |
Every recorded year (124)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,609 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,574 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,734 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,725 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,645 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,345 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,626 | 3.3 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,266 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,622 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,042 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,542 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,592 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,961 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,294 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,662 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,825 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,340 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,674 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,730 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,713 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,009 | 3.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,144 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,568 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,916 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,913 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,649 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,169 | 4.2 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,393 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,867 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,160 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,463 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,662 | 4.6 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,822 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,919 | 7.5 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,079 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,175 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,045 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,204 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,529 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,699 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,654 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,061 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,721 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,942 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,813 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,640 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,244 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,251 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,725 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,304 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,349 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,132 | 6.9 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,992 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,704 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,752 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,743 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,477 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,713 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,942 | 7.7 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,724 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,008 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,621 | 5.8 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,180 | 7.3 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,970 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,282 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,496 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,811 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,511 | 4.7 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,928 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,324 | 12.4 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,950 | 9.0 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,794 | 9.5 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,888 | 9.2 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,297 | 7.6 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,390 | 12.3 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,835 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,850 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,506 | 11.7 |
| 1921 | 20 | #1,994 | 16.2 |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,026 | 15.9 |
| 1919 | 31 | #1,397 | 27.4 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,607 | 21.6 |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,478 | 24.0 |
| 1916 | 32 | #1,283 | 30.6 |
| 1915 | 29 | #1,321 | 29.5 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,552 | 23.6 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,540 | 24.0 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,683 | 10.8 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,557 | 23.9 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,972 | 17.7 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,797 | 20.2 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,899 | 17.9 |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,216 | 34.5 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,999 | 16.9 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,562 | 24.0 |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,010 | 47.2 |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,335 | 30.5 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,635 | 22.7 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,512 | 25.1 |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,238 | 33.4 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,426 | 25.7 |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,112 | 38.6 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,407 | 25.6 |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,142 | 37.8 |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,321 | 30.0 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,518 | 22.4 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,024 | 43.1 |
| 1889 | 9 | #914 | 50.5 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,052 | 41.1 |
| 1886 | 13 | #639 | 89.9 |
| 1884 | 9 | #742 | 69.8 |
| 1883 | 8 | #705 | 71.2 |
| 1882 | 5 | #932 | 46.4 |
| 1880 | 6 | #758 | 65.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Celestia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Celestia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 124 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Celestia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Celestia, and how old are they?
An estimated 776 Americans named Celestia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (55% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 6 and 53. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 619 people named Celestia (618 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 627 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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, Celestia is the third most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 42 of their 1,704 babies (2.5%), the second most given that year.
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 Celestia
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 Celestia and names like it
- Compare Celestia and CelesteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCelestia peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Celestia since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Celestia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Celestia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Celestia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.