Celine
Meaning
form of Celina, related to Latin caelum "heaven"
The story
Celine is the French Celine, from the Roman name Caelina, feminine of Caelinus, which comes either from the family name Caelius or straight from Latin caelum, heaven. It sits in US records from the 1890s onward, quietly, never more than about five hundred girls in a decade for its first century. Then the 1990s arrive and the count jumps roughly sixfold in a single decade. Celine Dion's recording of The Power of Love spent four weeks at number one in early 1994 and became the best-selling single by a woman in America that year. We cannot prove one caused the other. But a century of flat numbers followed by a sixfold jump in the exact decade a singer named Celine became inescapable is about as clean as this kind of evidence gets. The part people miss: it never fell back. The 2020s are its highest count yet.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Celine peaked in the 2020s.
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Popularity in Brazil
4,067 people · the #3,161 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 50,000 · median age 16
Among people named Celine living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2000s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 730 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Celine
Most people given the name Celine in the United States are children or teenagers today. The name belongs to this generation.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Celine deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Celine truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Celine fits with your family’s names and surname.
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