Celie
Celie was given to 11 girls in 2025, #8,978 among girls’ names; 519 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 Celie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Celie?
#8,978 among girls’ names, 2025
Celie entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #8,978 in 2025.
15 babies in 1916, the peak
Celie peaked in 1916, when 15 girls were given it, #2,153 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,978 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,825 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,781 | 3.7 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,004 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,222 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,410 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,549 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,753 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,999 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,823 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 7 | #14,217 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,507 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,576 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,376 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,191 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,325 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,816 | 7.2 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,538 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,675 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,042 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,714 | 4.4 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,302 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,699 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,101 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,571 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,736 | 3.5 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,103 | 3.2 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,493 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,802 | 3.6 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,178 | 4.3 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,339 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,410 | 2.8 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,092 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,662 | 3.8 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,339 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,283 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,817 | 5.7 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,970 | 5.6 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,951 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,323 | 7.5 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,954 | 4.2 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,444 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,700 | 6.6 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,536 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,085 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,667 | 6.7 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,516 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,931 | 6.0 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,334 | 12.9 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,153 | 14.4 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,562 | 11.2 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,029 | 15.8 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,001 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,558 | 23.9 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,000 | 16.9 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,563 | 24.0 |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,105 | 39.9 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,465 | 26.5 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,452 | 26.7 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,428 | 25.7 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,391 | 27.1 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,439 | 25.2 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,136 | 38.5 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,466 | 23.5 |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,187 | 33.0 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,052 | 39.2 |
| 1887 | 7 | #963 | 48.0 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,053 | 38.8 |
| 1880 | 5 | #847 | 54.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Celie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Celie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Celie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Celie, and how old are they?
An estimated 238 Americans named Celie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 376 people named Celie (371 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 229 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 138,275 babies since 1880, Celie is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 436 babies (2.5%), the sixth 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 Celie
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 Celie and names like it
- Compare Celie and CeliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sCelie peaked in 1916.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Celie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Celie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.