Celéste

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Celéste is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French céleste (“heavenly”), from Latin caelestis.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 6.5K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 17K
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 90K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

51,111 people, 2020

Sources
493 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Celeste in US United States, ZA South Africa, ES Spain and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Celéste: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Celéste
  1. Frenchcéleste“heavenly”(measured from records)
  2. Latincaelestis(measured from records)

Borrowed from French céleste (“heavenly”), from Latin caelestis.

Sources 9

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
  • A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
  • Wiktionary
  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Celéste counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Celéste is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#86451,1111 in 6.5K51KCeleste493
BR Brazil—10,1921 in 21K13K—4
EC Ecuador—2,9441 in 5.7K2.9K—18
ES Spain—2,9381 in 17K2.9KCeleste61
ZA South Africa#939≈630 est.≈1 in 90K—Celeste82
SE Sweden—6191 in 16K619Celeste20
GY Guyana—811 in 9.3K81—3

51,111 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Celéste is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swahili given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Philippines, Congo - Kinshasa

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho, Kinyarwanda

    Also written Celeste, Celesté, Cèleste, Céleste, Celëste

  • English (South Africa) given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, United States, Netherlands, United Kingdom

    Also written Celeste, Celesté, Céleste

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Celéste under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Celéste mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from French céleste (“heavenly”), from Latin caelestis. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 7 other sources.
Is Celéste a male or female name?
Celéste is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Celéste have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 51 thousand people named Celéste, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled celeste.
Where is Celéste most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Celéste is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 5.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Celéste?
In the United States, the national register counted 51,111 people named Celéste in 2020, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
How common is Celéste compared with other names?
In the United States, Celéste is the 864th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Celéste” — the 864th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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