Celesta
Celesta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 846th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192147 births
- Best rank
- #846in 1881
- Since 1881
- 2,136people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,136 girls have been named Celesta in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 47 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1920s alone account for 16%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Celesta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 27 | |
| 1890s | 66 | |
| 1900s | 121 | |
| 1910s | 259 | |
| 1920s | 347 | |
| 1930s | 199 | |
| 1940s | 177 | |
| 1950s | 228 | |
| 1960s | 175 | |
| 1970s | 191 | |
| 1980s | 124 | |
| 1990s | 95 | |
| 2000s | 68 | |
| 2010s | 27 | |
| 2020s | 32 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Celesta was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Celesta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Arlenapeak 1919
- Marrypeak 1918
- Zitapeak 1922
- Irmapeak 1920
- Laurettapeak 1915
- Mignonpeak 1979
- Julepeak 1919
- Leoniapeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.