How popular is the name Celeste?

Celeste ranks 472nd among girls' names in US records, with 64,088 births since 1881. Over the past decade it accounts for 9,225.

Is Celeste a unisex name?

No. Celeste is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

2004, when 1,637 children were given the name. It has been in use for 144 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#472 of girl names

Pronounced S AH0 L EH1 S T (ARPABET)

Celeste is a girls' name, and first appears in 1881. It has been given to 64,088 children — the 472nd most common girls' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 2004, when 1,637 children were given it.

2004Girls: 1,637Boys: 0

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Celeste?: Celeste ranks 472nd among girls' names in US records, with 64,088 births since 1881. Over the past decade it accounts for 9,225.
Is Celeste a unisex name?: No. Celeste is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Celeste most popular?: 2004, when 1,637 children were given the name. It has been in use for 144 years and is still recorded as of 2024.