girls:
62.4k births since 1881
#508 (91st percentile)
boys:
57 births since 1916
#4529 (1st percentile)
overall:
62.4k births since 1881
#939 (88th percentile)
The name Celeste is the #939 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 62,444 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 87.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #508 (91.1% percentile) for all time with 62,387 births since 1881. For boys, it ranks #4,529 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 57 births since 1916.
Celeste first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for girls and 1916 for boys).
The name Celeste has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Celeste reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 78.6% percentile (ranked #201) with 811 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 811 births per million (ranked 78.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Celeste ranks #261 for girls (72.5% percentile) with 648 births per million, which is 79.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Celeste reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #529) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Celeste".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Celeste. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.5% confident that Celeste is pronounced as suh-LEHST, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is seh-LEHST, at 11.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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