Celestina
Celestina was given to 44 girls in 2025, #3,475 among girls’ names; 2,566 Americans have been recorded with it since 1892 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,830 Americans named Celestina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 21 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Celestina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Celestina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Celestina is “a female given name, variant of Celestine.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Celestina?
#3,475 among girls’ names, 2025
Celestina rose from #5,156 in 2015 to #3,475 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.6 to 27.4 per million.
52 babies in 1998, the peak
Celestina peaked in 1998, when 52 girls were given it, #2,617 among girls’ names. The 44 births of 2025 are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,475 | 27.4 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,044 | 16.0 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,587 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,053 | 21.9 |
| 2021 | 20 | #5,997 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,635 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,187 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,683 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,593 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,832 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (125)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,156 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,189 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,113 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,443 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,614 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,970 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,613 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,621 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,262 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,114 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,297 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,105 | 18.5 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,443 | 15.9 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,199 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,335 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,600 | 19.8 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,255 | 22.0 |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,617 | 29.4 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,233 | 20.7 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,847 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,595 | 17.1 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,544 | 17.4 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,433 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 26 | #3,981 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,519 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,632 | 15.3 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,904 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,319 | 16.3 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,438 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,052 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,096 | 16.9 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,857 | 18.4 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,571 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,025 | 17.1 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,572 | 21.6 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,010 | 17.5 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,681 | 20.6 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,111 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,464 | 22.8 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,554 | 21.2 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,690 | 19.2 |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,446 | 21.1 |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,512 | 19.9 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,692 | 17.1 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,879 | 14.4 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,867 | 13.7 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,924 | 12.4 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,073 | 11.0 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,793 | 12.1 |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,524 | 13.6 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,541 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,263 | 8.4 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,585 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,805 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,555 | 11.4 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,724 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,681 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,395 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,165 | 6.8 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,837 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,813 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,180 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,293 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,928 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,487 | 9.4 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,676 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,753 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,630 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,278 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,759 | 8.3 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,714 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,528 | 9.8 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,725 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,687 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,281 | 11.6 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,445 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,888 | 16.4 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,220 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,213 | 13.2 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,961 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,217 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,846 | 17.2 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,565 | 10.9 |
| 1932 | 24 | #1,570 | 22.5 |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,641 | 20.7 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,710 | 19.5 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,839 | 17.9 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,104 | 14.7 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,684 | 21.0 |
| 1926 | 31 | #1,452 | 26.2 |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,584 | 23.0 |
| 1924 | 27 | #1,648 | 21.6 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,788 | 19.1 |
| 1922 | 42 | #1,191 | 35.0 |
| 1921 | 28 | #1,580 | 22.7 |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,412 | 26.7 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,081 | 15.0 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,763 | 19.0 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,786 | 18.5 |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,958 | 16.3 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,812 | 18.3 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,028 | 15.8 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,580 | 11.2 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,866 | 17.9 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,240 | 14.3 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,000 | 17.3 |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,273 | 32.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,124 | 15.7 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,766 | 20.3 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,932 | 18.2 |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,148 | 37.6 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,597 | 23.4 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,427 | 25.7 |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,075 | 40.4 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,488 | 23.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Celestina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Celestina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 125 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Celestina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Celestina, and how old are they?
1,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 71% of the 2,566 Americans ever recorded as Celestina. The median Celestina alive today is 35 years old; half are between 21 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 3,184 people named Celestina (3,168 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,768 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 71 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 190 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 379 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 433 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 433 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 323 |
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).
Where are babies named Celestina born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #3,000 | 3.1× |
| California | 6 | #2,842 | 1.1× |
Where Celestina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Celestina is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 3.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Celestina with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 12,607 babies since 1880, Celestina is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 44 of their 93 babies (47%), again the second most given.
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 Celestina
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 Celestina and names like it
- Compare Celestina and CelestineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCelestina peaked in 1998.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Celestina since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Celestina.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Celestina alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.