Celeste
For 2025 the count puts Celeste at #188 nationwide, and more parents pick it every year. It has been on the books since 1881 and never mattered more than it does today; 65,621 bearers and counting.
What Celeste carries
Celeste · Latin
“heavenly”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Celeste’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Celeste, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Celeste since 1881
Celeste is at its all-time peak right now: #188 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Celeste is most common
Celeste is most common in Rhode Island: 0.37% of the state's recorded girls' names in 2025. New Mexico (0.32%) and Delaware (0.27%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Celeste
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Camille
#240 in 2025 · Latin
Cecilia
#108 in 2025 · Latin
Vivienne
#172 in 2025 · Latin
Emilio
#154 in 2025 · Latin
Lorenzo
#117 in 2025 · Latin
Juliette
#110 in 2025 · Latin
Claire
#68 in 2025 · Latin
Emilia
#45 in 2025 · Latin
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About Celeste
How common is Celeste today?
For 2025 the count puts Celeste at #188 nationwide, and more parents pick it every year. The chart above draws the whole run since 1881, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Celeste?
“heavenly” is the meaning our source sets down, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Celeste?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Camille, Cecilia and Vivienne, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Celeste’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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A printed picture book where Celeste earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
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