Celinda
Celinda was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,387 among girls’ names; 1,085 Americans have been recorded with it since 1938 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Celinda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Celinda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Celinda is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
Probably a blend of Celia + Linda.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Celinda?
#15,387 among girls’ names, 2025
Celinda rose from #16,984 in 2015 to #15,387 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 3.1 per million.
34 babies in 1954, the peak
Celinda peaked in 1954, when 34 girls were given it, #1,774 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,387 | 3.1 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,984 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,459 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,462 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,212 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,985 | 3.8 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,160 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,652 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,627 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,201 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 8 | #10,914 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,906 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,179 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,062 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,676 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,043 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,737 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,680 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,599 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,065 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,398 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,032 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,569 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,341 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,226 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,726 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,019 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,710 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,586 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,936 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,170 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,445 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,710 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,388 | 14.3 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,423 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,895 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,124 | 15.0 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,658 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,420 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,671 | 16.2 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,715 | 14.9 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,404 | 17.2 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,304 | 17.1 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,099 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,857 | 11.2 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,279 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,606 | 12.1 |
| 1963 | 24 | #2,493 | 12.5 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,940 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,366 | 12.9 |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,376 | 12.4 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,349 | 11.9 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,391 | 11.4 |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,174 | 12.7 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,541 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,161 | 12.8 |
| 1954 | 34 | #1,774 | 17.5 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,876 | 15.4 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,211 | 11.9 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,128 | 12.2 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,958 | 14.0 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,426 | 9.9 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,606 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,460 | 9.6 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,714 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,171 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,421 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,262 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,009 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,286 | 6.6 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,481 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,426 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Celinda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Celinda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Celinda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Celinda, and how old are they?
An estimated 937 Americans named Celinda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 42 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,279 people named Celinda (1,273 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 977 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% above 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).
Where are babies named Celinda born?
The states with the most babies named Celinda are Texas, California and New York, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 202 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| California | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 13 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Celinda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Celinda is most over-represented in Texas: since 1938 it was given 2.7 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 Celinda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Celinda
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 Celinda and names like it
- Compare Celinda and LesleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sCelinda peaked in 1954.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Celinda since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Celinda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Celinda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Celinda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.