Celine
Pronounced S AH0 L IY1 N (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 2024
- 132 years in use
- 2 spellings
How popular is Celine?
Celine is a girls' name, and first appears in 1893. It has been given to 26,313 children — the 788th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: roughly twice as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2024, when 1,771 children were given it.
Two other spellings are counted in that total — Selene and Saline — because they are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Celine and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Selene
- Saline
Characteristics
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- S AH0 L IY1 N
- Stress pattern:
- 01
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Celine
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Celine
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Celine?
- Celine ranks 788th among girls' names in US records, with 26,313 births since 1893. Over the past decade it accounts for 10,785.
- Is Celine a unisex name?
- No. Celine is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Celine most popular?
- 2024, when 1,771 children were given the name. It has been in use for 132 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Celine spelled?
- Selene, Saline. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.