Celeste

Where Celeste comes from

Borrowed from French Céleste, ultimately from Latin caelestis (“heavenly”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Celeste
  • French
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Celeste through the years
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #447 among girls with 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, the most in any year.
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.