Celeste

Where Celeste comes from

Borrowed from French Céleste, ultimately from Latin caelestis (“heavenly”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Celeste
  • French
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #447 among girls, 14 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1917
    Celeste Holm born
    American actress
  3. 1980
    Celeste Ng born
    American novelist
  4. 2025
    Peak, #188
    1,662 babies named Celeste — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French [in turn from Latin].
Namesakes
  • Celeste Holm · American actress, 1917–2012
  • Celeste Ng · American novelist, born 1980
  • Celeste Yarnall · American actress, 1944–2018
  • Celeste Cortesi · Filipino model and beauty pageant titleholder, born 1997
  • Celeste Caeiro · Portuguese restaurant worker during the Carnation Revolution, 1933–2024

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.