Celeste

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Celeste: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Celeste: Recorded since 1968, with a gap of 27 years, its highest recorded position is #401, and it stood at #407 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
37times a registrar ranked it
57years from first to last
#401highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Celeste's record

Absent from every published list for 27 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1222
1997	#1045
1998	#846
1999	#678
2000	#748
2001	#779
2002	#750
2003	#844
2004	#866
2005	#951
2006	#928
2007	#793
2008	#916
2009	#1055
2010	#1150
2011	#1015
2012	#955
2013	#900
2014	#859
2015	#775
2016	#955
2017	#683
2018	#657
2019	#749
2020	#550
2021	#603
2022	#576
2023	#444
2024	#467

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 6 of the 57 years from 1968 to 2024.

In 2024: #407 among girls in Northern Ireland, #467 among girls in England and Wales, #556 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1968–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1968
First recorded at #401 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1968 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1968–2024
Highest recorded position: #401 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1968 (recorded 1968–2024).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #467 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Celeste appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 1,244 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1968.

Celeste across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Celeste's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#401 (1968)	#401 (1968)	#556 (2024)	6 of 57	25 (1968–2024)	6 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#1222 (1996)	#444 (2023)	#467 (2024)	29 of 29	1,244 (1996–2024)	90 (2023)

Celeste by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Celeste in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	95	4 of 10	24
2000s	323	10 of 10	32
2010s	445	10 of 10	45
2020sbusiest	381	5 of 10	76

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 76 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Celeste appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1968 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #401 in Republic of Ireland in 1968.

Celeste's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#467	88	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#444	90	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#576	67	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#603	64	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#550	72	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#749	51	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#657	61	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#683	60	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#955	38	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#775	50	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#859	44	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#900	41	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#955	38	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1015	34	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1150	28	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1055	30	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#916	35	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#793	41	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#928	31	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#951	28	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#866	31	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#844	31	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#750	34	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#779	31	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#748	31	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#678	35	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#846	26	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1045	19	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1222	15	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#407	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#556	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#625	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#621	5	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#401	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1968 and 2024, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #401, first reached in 1968.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 90 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 27 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 56 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Ceire · #365, 18y
Celene · #300, 13y
Celestine · #443, 21y
Celia · #284, 46y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Luisa · #401, 31y
Gus · #402, 30y
Albi · #404, 26y
Jethro · #398, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Allyson · #401, 15y
Luisa · #401, 31y
Phillipa · #401, 32y
Richelle · #401, 30y

Celeste was ranked #401 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1968. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Celeste and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Celeste without appearing here.

Celeste moved ahead of

Helene Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1222 and #1168 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1045 and #1802.
Janet Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1045 and #1045 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #846 and #1571.
Alison Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1055 and #1022 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1150 and #1815.
Suzanne Compare
In 2005 they stood at #951 and #745 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #928 and #1585.

Moved ahead of Celeste

Astrid Compare
In 2008 they stood at #916 and #937 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1055 and #664.
Aria Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1055 and #1248 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1150 and #773.
Ida Compare
In 2008 they stood at #916 and #937 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1055 and #726.
Beau Compare
In 2002 they stood at #750 and #809 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #844 and #545.

Moved the opposite way to Celeste

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Celeste went from #1222 to #467 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Celeste went from #1222 to #467 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Celeste went from #1222 to #467 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Celeste went from #1222 to #467 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Celeste

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Celeste went from #1222 to #467 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Celeste went from #1222 to #467 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Celeste went from #1222 to #467 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Celeste went from #1222 to #467 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1968 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #401 in Republic of Ireland in 1968. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Celeste

Celeste at a glance

What stands out in Celeste's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Celeste across 2 official records

Celeste by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Celeste appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Celeste

Celeste and the names beside it

Celeste moved ahead of

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Celeste at a glance

What stands out in Celeste's record

Celeste across 2 official records

Celeste by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Celeste appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Celeste

Celeste and the names beside it

Celeste moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Celeste

Moved the opposite way to Celeste

Moved the same way as Celeste