Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Celestin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,376 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,376 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 314 as a first name in 2020; 3,625 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Celestin’s family of names
In English usage, Celestin shares an earlier linguistic root with Celestine. In Slovenian usage, Celestin has a related form in Celestino. In Slovenian usage, Celestin has a related form in Čelestin.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Celestin has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its French roots to each of them.
Frenchwhere Celestin comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Celestin
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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