girl's name

Celina

  • Gender Girl
  • Syllables 3
  • Letters 6
  • Popularity Top 1000 (US)
  • Births on record 27,000

the United States

#827

2025 births

Celina is a girl's name with 3 syllables. In 2025 it was given to 329 babies in the United States, ranking #827. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

  • Peaked in 1994, when 593 babies were given the name.
  • It has been rising over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 10,077 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • 3 syllables, with the stress on syllable 2.

Celina over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1880s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

4,009
'80 '90 '00 '10 '20 '30 '40 '50 '60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Celina by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1880s 102
1890s 139
1900s 119
1910s 232
1920s 277
1930s 181
1940s 193
1950s 354
1960s 781
1970s 1,699
1980s 2,489
1990s 4,009
2000s 2,323
2010s 1,914
2020s (to 2025) 1,489

How popular is Celina?

In 2025, Celina was given to 329 babies in the United States, ranking #827 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

Where Celina is used

Canada #649 44 in 2024
United States #827 329 in 2025
Ireland #943 3 in 2025
England & Wales #986 35 in 2025
France as Célina #1,514 25 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Celina is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Célina Célina is Celina written with an acute accent in France, and the spelling parents there overwhelmingly choose: it ranks #1,514 in France, against #5,666 for Celina. 840

Names that peaked alongside Celina

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Celina also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Celina over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Celina in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

French
Cécile
German
Silke
Polish
Cecylia
Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Selina Cecilie

Sibling names for Celina

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Celina — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Celina

How popular is the name Celina?

In 2025, Celina was given to 329 babies in the United States, ranking #827 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

Is Celina a girl's or a boy's name?

Celina is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

How many syllables are in Celina?

Celina has 3 syllables.

When was Celina most popular?

Celina peaked in 1994, when 593 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.

Is Celina a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Celina currently ranks #649 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.