girls:
9.7k births since 1880
#1621 (72nd percentile)
boys:
232 births since 1912
#4354 (5th percentile)
overall:
10k births since 1880
#2678 (65th percentile)
The name Celestine is the #2,678 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,955 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 65.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,621 (71.6% percentile) for all time with 9,723 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,354 (5.0% percentile) for all time with 232 births since 1912.
Celestine has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1912 for boys). Birth data for Celestine is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for girls and 24 years for boys). 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.
The name Celestine has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Celestine reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 26.4% percentile (ranked #508) with 103 births per million. The name was most common in 1902, with 146 births per million (ranked 10.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Celestine ranks #925 for girls (2.3% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 10.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Celestine reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #539) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 21 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1941.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Celestine".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Celestine. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 29.7% confident that Celestine is pronounced as SEH-luh-STEEN, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SEH-luh-steen, at 28.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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