girls:
15.7k births since 1880
#1211 (79th percentile)
boys:
6 births since 1978
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
15.7k births since 1880
#2082 (73rd percentile)
The name Celina is the #2,082 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,701 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 73.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,211 (78.8% percentile) for all time with 15,695 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1978.
Celina has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1978 for boys).
The name Celina has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Celina reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 54.1% percentile (ranked #388) with 304 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 304 births per million (ranked 54.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Celina ranks #706 for girls (25.5% percentile) with 142 births per million, which is 46.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Celina reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #675) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1978.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Celina".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Celina. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 77.8% confident that Celina is pronounced as suh-LEE-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is seh-LEE-nuh, at 22.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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