first name
CELINA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 17,445 people named Celina, 60.5% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 22.3% as White and 7.9% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Celina peaked in 1994, when 593 babies got the name.
At least 16,301 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Celina by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,098. The largest share of babies named Celina, 32.1%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Celina is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Celina has been most common in New Mexico (6.5×), Arizona (4.4×), and California (2.8×), and least common in Tennessee (0.2×).
12,081 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Celina, most common first.
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