Céleste

Locally spelled Celeste in US United States, ZA South Africa, ES Spain and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Céleste is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name5 spellings in the group

  Also written Cèleste, Celesté, Celeste, Célèste

• Swahili given name12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Philippines, Congo - Kinshasa

  Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho, Kinyarwanda

  Also written Celeste, Celesté, Cèleste, Celéste, Celëste

• French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

  Also written Celeste

• Spanish given name18 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Paraguay

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

  Also written Celeste, Çeleste, Célesté, Čëlëštë, Célèsté

21 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Céleste is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In French, From Latin caelestis, 'heavenly'.

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In French, Origine latine, « céleste ».

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• French, now also quite common in the English-speaking world: from Latin Caelestis ‘heavenly’, a popular name among early Christians. Variant: English: Celeste .

  as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Céleste Mogadorb. 1824FRFrench dancer, playwright and novelist (1824-1909)
• Céleste Albaretb. 1891FRMarcel Proust's maid, friend and sure
• Céleste Lettb. 1951FRFrench politician

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Céleste mean, and where does it come from?

celestial Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

Is Céleste a male or female name?

Céleste is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2024), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Belgium (Statbel, 2024).

What are other forms of the name Céleste?

In the etymology graph, Célestin and Célestine are forms of the same name in other languages.

Which countries have the most people named Céleste?

In the United States, the national register counted about 51 thousand people named Céleste, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled celeste. After it come Brazil, Ecuador, Spain and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Céleste most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Céleste is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 5.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Céleste?

In the United States, the national register counted 51,111 people named Céleste in 2020, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.

How common is Céleste compared with other names?

In the United States, Céleste is the 864th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.