Celes
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 16 babies a year in the US.
Celes by the numbers
Celes was given to 16 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
What we can tell you about Celes
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Celes. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Celestheavenly; a form of Celeste10 in the US (2017)
- Celesteheavenly, celestial671 in the US (2017)
- Celiaheavenly or of the sky; a form of Caelia317 in the US (2017)
- Celenamoon goddess; a variant of Selena36 in the US (2017)
- Ceryslove27 in England and Wales (2025)
- Celenemoon goddess; a form of Selene16 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Celes
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