Seleste

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/sɛɫɛst/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Seleste is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ZMZambia≈1 in 132K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 186K
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 188K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

771 people, 2022

Sources
87 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 132K (inferred from the name graph)

Zambia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Seleste counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Seleste is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil7711 in 275K1KSeleste23
US United States6551 in 508K654Seleste87
ZM Zambia≈130 est.≈1 in 132K1——
GT Guatemala≈92 est.≈1 in 186K—Seleste5
CO Colombia≈86 est.≈1 in 574K—Seleste12
DO Dominican Republic≈56 est.≈1 in 188K—Seleste7
LV Latvia51 in 376K5——

771 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Seleste is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Śěľėśťë, Selesté

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada

    Also written Sèleste

27 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Seleste is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Seleste,

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Seleste
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1K#9,072
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—922#4,840
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022771—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2010748—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2000711—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—698#9,908
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1990665—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020654#17,018
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1980594—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1970451—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1960299—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1950155—

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

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Seleste?
A machine transcription gives /sɛɫɛst/ (IPA) for English.
Is Seleste a male or female name?
Seleste is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Seleste have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 771 people named Seleste, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled seleste.
How common is the name Seleste?
In Brazil, the national register counted 771 people named Seleste in 2022, about 1 in 275 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Seleste”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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