Celestine
About 10,041 American babies have been named Celestine since 1880, most of them around 1952. In 2025 it ranked 3,211th. About 4,900 Celestines are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Celestine boys named Celestine
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 10,041
- Estimated living today
- 4,900
- Median age today
- 66
- Peak year
- 1952
- Best rank
- 634th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,211th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 9,809 / 232
How old the living Celestines are
born that year still alive today
Of the 10,041 babies given the name since 1880, about 4,900 are alive — 49 in every hundred. Roughly 410 of them are children and 2,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Celestines
- Celestine V (1215–1296)13th‑century Italian hermit and founder of the Celestines, Catholic saint, first pope to resign
- Celestine I (400–432)pope
- Celestine III (1106–1198)pope of the Catholic Church from 1191 to 1198
- Celestine IV (died 1241)pope
- Celestine II (died 1144)pope of the Catholic Church from 1143 to 1144
- Celestine Babayaro (born 1978)Nigerian association football player
- Celestine II (1100–1126)Italian cardinal, antipope 1124
- Célestine Galli-Marié (1837–1905)French mezzo-soprano
People named Celestine with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Celestine is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Celestine is most concentrated in Louisiana (5.8×), South Carolina (4.8×), Mississippi (4.2×), Virginia (3.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1952
The most popular girls’ names the year Celestine peaked:
Celestine elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Celestine +2 spellings | 15,965 | 85th |
| Belgium girls | Célestine +1 spelling | 974 | 194th |
| Switzerland girls | Célestine | 139 | 515th |
| England and Wales girls | Celestine | 136 | 1,719th |
| France boys | Celestine | 5 | 763rd |
| Ireland girls | Celestine | 3 | 443rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Celestine: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Célestine | 35 | 0.003% | 720th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Célestine | 103 | 0.024% | 204th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Célestine | 1 | 0.002% | 192nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Celestine is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.03% of children were given it – 42 of them.
Celestine: rank by region
In 2025, Celestine was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Célestine | 836 | 5 |
| Wallonia | Célestine | 109 | 23 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Celestine appears in the lists for Province of Luxembourg (30th), Province of Walloon Brabant (58th) and Province of Namur (68th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Celestine among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Celestine +1 spelling | 10 | 35 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Celestine against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.