Celeste: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced suh-LEST · 2 syllables

Celeste means “heavenly”, from French and Latin.

Borrowed from French Celeste, ultimately from Latin caelestis (“heavenly”).

How popular is Celeste?

Celeste was the #188 name in the US in 2025, given to 1,662 babies. It’s rising: up 96% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2020.

Babies named Celeste in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 2020).

Half of US adults named Celeste are older than 40; most are between 20 and 74. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Celeste have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Celeste means “heavenly”. It comes from French and Latin.

Celeste is pronounced suh-LEST.

Celeste was the #188 name in the US in 2025, given to 1,662 babies. It’s rising: up 96% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2020.

Half of US adults named Celeste are older than 40. Most are between 20 and 74.