Celeste
Meaning of Celeste
Celeste, pronounced suh-LEST, glides into English and French from the Latin caelestis, meaning “heavenly,” and the name still wears that star-dusted aura with casual elegance—no pressure on the little one, of course. Imagine a balmy Chennai evening when the sky turns sorbet pink; a new mother croons this name and, for a heartbeat, even the auto-rickshaws seem to downshift. Celeste evokes the midnight-blue sari embroidered with silver zari, the twinkle of a celesta keyboard in Tchaikovsky’s Sugar-Plum Fairy, and the quiet thrill of spotting the first monsoon star above the Ganges. In the United States, its popularity has risen gently over the past century, landing near the Top 200 in 2024, hinting that today’s parents favor names both timeless and light on the tongue. Rooted in ancient Latin yet airy enough to travel any sky, Celeste offers a baby a passport stamped with wonder and a touch of celestial grace.
Pronunciation
French
- Pronunced as seh-LEST (/sə.lɛst/)
English
- Pronunced as suh-LEST (/səˈlɛst/)
U.S. Popularity Chart
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Notable People Named Celeste
| Celeste Epiphany Waite, known as Celeste, is an English singer and songwriter who began collaborating with electronic producers in 2014 and later released the EPs The Milk and the Honey and Lately, the latter through Polydor. |
| Celeste Headlee is an American radio journalist and author known for cohosting PBS Retro Report, hosting The Takeaway and On Second Thought, and writing We Need to Talk. |
| Celeste Ng is an American novelist whose debut Everything I Never Told You won Amazon Book of the Year, Little Fires Everywhere became a 2020 miniseries, she won a Pushcart Prize and a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship, and she published Our Missing Hearts in 2022. |
| Celeste Barber is an Australian comedian and media personality. |
| Celeste Raack is an Australian Irish cricket all-rounder who debuted for Ireland in 2018, plays for the Typhoons, and previously represented Tasmania and the Hobart Hurricanes. |
| Maria Celeste Cid is an Argentine telenovela actress. |
| Celeste Watkins-Hayes is a public policy scholar and dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. |
| Celeste Sanchez Romero was a Mexican dental researcher and academic who served as a federal deputy for the Labor Party during the first six months of the 65th Legislature. |
| Argentine meteorologist and educator Andrea Celeste Saulo became the first woman to lead the World Meteorological Organization as Secretary General in 2024 after directing the national meteorological service of Argentina and serving as first vice president of the organization in 2018. |
| Maria Celeste Rodrigues was a Portuguese fado singer and the younger sister of Amalia Rodrigues. |
| Celeste Yim is a Korean Canadian comedian and writer. |
| Canadian competitive gamer and reality TV personality Celeste Anderson won TBS King of the Nerds season one and earned its one hundred thousand dollar prize. |
| Celeste O'Connor - Celeste OConnor is an American actor who played Paloma Davis in the Amazon original film Selah and the Spades. |
| Celeste Drake is an American union official and trade expert who served in the Biden administration as the first Made in America Director and later as deputy director for Labor and Economy at the National Economic Council. |
| Celeste Johnson, known as Celeste, is an American singer and model and a former professional long jumper. |
