Feminine dossier · first seen 1908

Celest

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Celest
Creator: Social Security Administration

Stable Cross-generational persistence

Peak era

2004

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Gen Z

1908Peak 20042024

Peak year

2004

Decline from peak

71.4%

2024

All-time

1,081

Celest has avoided the sharper boom-and-bust cycles of fashion naming. Its strength is not novelty but endurance: steady recognition across eras, families, and classrooms.

Your name peaked in 2004, when 56 girls were named Celest.

In 2024, only 16 girls were given the name.

Down 71.4% from its peak.

All told, about 1,081 Americans have been named Celest and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1908.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGen Z

StabilityEra-bound, still legible

TrajectoryCross-generational persistence

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