Celestia

Where Celestia comes from

From Latin caelestis (“heavenly”), perhaps influenced by celestial. In sense 2 (“Fredericton”), after Celestial City.
— Wiktionary's entry for Celestia
  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1886
    Peak, #633
    13 babies named Celestia — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,036.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes

No widely known Celestia turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.