girls:
2.5k births since 1892
#3470 (39th percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1892
#5342 (31st percentile)
The name Celestina is the #5,342 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,496 recorded births since 1892. This represents the 31.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,470 (39.3% percentile) for all time with 2,496 births since 1892.
Celestina first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1892 (first recorded for girls in 1892). Birth data for Celestina is available in 123 out of the 132 years between 1892 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Celestina reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 6.2% percentile (ranked #560) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 1894, with 38 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Celestina ranks #930 for girls (1.8% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 33.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Celestina".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Celestina. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.9% confident that Celestina is pronounced as suh-LEH-stee-nuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is seh-leh-STEE-nuh, at 28.9% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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