Celestine

Where Celestine comes from

Learned borrowing from Latin Caelestinus.
— Wiktionary's entry for Celestine
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 400
    Celestine I born
    pope
  2. 1106
    Celestine III born
    pope of the Catholic Church from 1191 to 1198
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #492 among girls — 12 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1902
    Peak, #490
    41 babies named Celestine — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,859.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
Namesakes
  • Celestine I · pope, 400–432
  • Celestine III · pope of the Catholic Church from 1191 to 1198, 1106–1198
  • Celestine IV · pope, died 1241
  • Celestine II · pope of the Catholic Church from 1143 to 1144, died 1144
  • Celestine Babayaro · Nigerian association football player, born 1978

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.