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Celena vs Celest

American parents have registered 4,789 Celenas since 1880, against 1,089 Celests. Celena is still ahead, with 37 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Celena against Celest, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Celena Celest

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 97 years in which either name was published, Celena for 91 years and Celest for 6 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Celena Celest
Total US births 4,7891,089
Most in one year 20256
Babies in 2025 378
Estimated living today 4,5001,000
Median age today 3525
Peak year 19952004
Best rank 935th girls2,851st girls
Rank in 2025 3,903rd10,917th
First recorded 18901908
Girls / boys 4,789 / 01,089 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Celenas alive today are over 35; half the Celests are over 25. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Celena and Celest.