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How popular is “Celest” in the USA?

Number of people named “Celest” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Celest” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Celest” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Celest” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Celest” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Celest” by birth year

This chart shows how “Celest” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1908 5 0.000010232 5 100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 100%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 100%
1963 8 0.000002021 8 100%
1964 10 0.000002572 10 100%
1965 14 0.000003862 14 100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 100%
1971 10 0.000002913 10 100%
1972 9 0.000002864 9 100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 100%
1978 9 0.000002836 9 100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 100%
1980 12 0.000003484 12 100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 100%
1982 9 0.000002566 9 100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 100%
1989 11 0.000002861 11 100%
1990 12 0.000003036 12 100%
1991 13 0.000003337 13 100%
1992 14 0.000003645 14 100%
1993 20 0.000005305 20 100%
1994 26 0.000006994 26 100%
1995 35 0.000009557 35 100%
1996 39 0.000010693 39 100%
1997 34 0.000009377 34 100%
1998 47 0.000012778 47 100%
1999 40 0.000010829 40 100%
2000 44 0.000011641 44 100%
2001 45 0.000012021 45 100%
2002 48 0.00001284 48 100%
2003 28 0.000007364 28 100%
2004 56 0.000014656 56 100%
2005 33 0.000008583 33 100%
2006 31 0.000007836 31 100%
2007 30 0.000007504 30 100%
2008 27 0.000006869 27 100%
2009 20 0.000005235 20 100%
2010 17 0.0000046 17 100%
2011 17 0.000004648 17 100%
2012 16 0.000004375 16 100%
2013 10 0.000002743 10 100%
2014 15 0.000004047 15 100%
2015 11 0.000002972 11 100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 100%
2017 10 0.000002796 10 100%
2018 12 0.000003413 12 100%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 100%
2020 10 0.000002993 10 100%
2021 11 0.000003247 11 100%
2022 12 0.000003547 12 100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 100%
2024 16 0.000004807 16 100%

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