Celester · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Celester.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1914

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 29 recorded years as a table

Celester, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1914	14
1916	6
1917	5
1920	5
1921	5
1923	7
1926	5
1931	5
1933	5
1934	6
1936	6
1940	5
1941	4
1943	8
1945	4
1948	3
1949	3
1950	4
1951	5
1955	4
1957	2
1959	4
1961	2
1962	2
1968	3
1970	3
1971	4
1974	5
1977	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Celester isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1977: 5
Rank in 1977: #5,845
How rare: 1 in 328,644 boys
Since 1914: 181

Celester was last recorded in 1977. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1914, at 14 per million boys born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Celester doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.