Celine
Celine was given to 1,466 girls in 2025, #207 among girls’ names; 18,522 Americans have been recorded with it since 1893 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 17,400 Americans named Celine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 4 and 26.
Celine came back: it left the girls’ top 1,000 after 1931 and returned in 1994.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Celine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Celine mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Celine is “a female given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the sense “heaven” (caelum).
From French Céline, from Latin Caelīna, derived from the Roman gens name Caelius, from caelum (“heaven”). Also a short form of Marceline, feminine diminutive of Marcel.
/səˈliːn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Celine?
#207 among girls’ names, 2025
Celine rose from #823 in 2015 to #207 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.19 to 0.91 per 1,000.
1,466 babies in 2025, the peak
Celine peaked in 2025, when 1,466 girls were given it, #207 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 1,348 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,466 | #207 | 0.91 |
| 2024 | 1,348 | #228 | 0.83 |
| 2023 | 1,032 | #300 | 0.64 |
| 2022 | 941 | #342 | 0.57 |
| 2021 | 802 | #390 | 0.49 |
| 2020 | 672 | #459 | 0.42 |
| 2019 | 639 | #491 | 0.38 |
| 2018 | 614 | #505 | 0.36 |
| 2017 | 575 | #539 | 0.33 |
| 2016 | 492 | #611 | 0.28 |
Every recorded year (121)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 341 | #823 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 391 | #716 | 0.22 |
| 2013 | 345 | #791 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 269 | #947 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 201 | #1,197 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 231 | #1,078 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 237 | #1,078 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 248 | #1,055 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 267 | #998 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 241 | #1,061 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 263 | #941 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 317 | #799 | 0.17 |
| 2003 | 309 | #801 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 302 | #778 | 0.17 |
| 2001 | 282 | #823 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 357 | #677 | 0.20 |
| 1999 | 394 | #617 | 0.22 |
| 1998 | 565 | #456 | 0.32 |
| 1997 | 443 | #537 | 0.25 |
| 1996 | 271 | #774 | 0.15 |
| 1995 | 231 | #845 | 0.13 |
| 1994 | 247 | #814 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 157 | #1,130 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 122 | #1,355 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 77 | #1,828 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 52 | #2,373 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,616 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,600 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 54 | #2,044 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 38 | #2,576 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 47 | #2,204 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 50 | #2,023 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 35 | #2,555 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,841 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,088 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,443 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,628 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,438 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,614 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,669 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,622 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,562 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 34 | #2,273 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,233 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,006 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 41 | #2,021 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 39 | #2,004 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,096 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,221 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 42 | #1,740 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 64 | #1,379 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 61 | #1,445 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 53 | #1,549 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 71 | #1,315 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 60 | #1,435 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 53 | #1,522 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 55 | #1,450 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 76 | #1,221 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 49 | #1,530 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 37 | #1,738 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,844 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 47 | #1,467 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 44 | #1,474 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 38 | #1,560 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 42 | #1,451 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,838 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 45 | #1,378 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 45 | #1,371 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 32 | #1,702 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 34 | #1,510 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 27 | #1,597 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,749 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,628 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 27 | #1,593 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,655 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 32 | #1,316 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,592 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 40 | #1,143 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,362 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,385 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 34 | #1,224 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,377 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 44 | #1,054 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 47 | #1,033 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 49 | #998 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 28 | #1,465 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,343 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 49 | #1,072 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 48 | #1,098 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 31 | #1,453 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,040 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 19 | #2,067 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,483 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,803 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,565 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,086 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 22 | #1,757 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,215 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,579 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,975 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,030 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,050 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,414 | 0.01 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,798 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,868 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,577 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,732 | 0.02 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,235 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,758 | 0.02 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,408 | 0.03 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,467 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Celine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Celine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 121 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Celine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Celine, and how old are they?
17,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 18,522 Americans ever recorded as Celine. The median Celine alive today is 11 years old; half are between 4 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 13,037 people named Celine (13,016 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,554 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 157 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 712 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 542 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,510 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,870 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 9,600 |
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 Celine born?
The states with the most babies named Celine are California, New York and Texas, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 330 | #90 | 1.9× |
| New York | 158 | #87 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 155 | #222 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 141 | #129 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 63 | #158 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 50 | #161 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 50 | #172 | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 49 | #106 | 1.2× |
| Washington | 42 | #172 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 41 | #264 | 0.7× |
Where Celine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Celine is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.9 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 Celine 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 41,666 babies since 1880, Celine is the most given (44% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,466 of their 1,856 babies (79%), again the 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 Celine
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 Celine and names like it
- Compare Celine and CelinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCeline peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Celine since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Celine: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Celine.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Celine alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.