Celinda
Feminine · “heavenly”
Celia comes from a Roman clan. The gens Caelia was one of the old Roman families, and its name is usually connected to caelum, the sky — which would make Celia a heavenly one, though Roman family names rarely give up their meanings that easily. Celinda joins that front to the -inda ending that Spanish and American naming have both used freely.
How old is the name Celinda?
Celinda first appears in US birth records in 1938 — 87 years ago. The typical Celinda alive today was born around 1968, making them about 57 years old. About 1,000 people named Celinda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Celinda most popular?
Celinda peaked in 1954, reaching #1769 nationally. Today it ranks #14942, 13,173 places below that high. See the whole 1954 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Caelia to Celinda
The story of Celinda
Celia entered English use through Shakespeare, who gave it to a character in a comedy, and it stayed quietly in circulation. The -inda ending was doing steady work in Spanish naming, where Belinda, Rosalinda and Florinda all carry it, and in American naming, where Linda was for a stretch of years the most-given women's name in the country. Celinda sits where those meet: it appears in American records from 1938 and peaked in 1954, which is Linda's own decade exactly.
Meaningscholars disagree
heavenly, or a joining of Celia and Linda
The Roman gens Caelia gave the name Caelia and then Celia, and the usual derivation connects it to caelum, the sky or heaven. That is a proposal rather than a finding; Roman clan names are mostly older than any explanation. The -inda ending comes from the Germanic lind by way of Spanish, or simply from Linda, which was among the most-used American names when this one appeared.
How the name formed
- Caelia
- Celia
- Celinda
Related forms: Celinda · Celia · Celinda
Pronouncing Celinda
seh-LIN-dah
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Spanish and English agree closely here; the only difference is that Spanish gives the vowels a purer quality.
Nicknames for Celinda
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1938
- Most girls named
- 195329 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1769reached in 1954
- Change vs 2015
- 0.0%5 in 2025, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Celinda in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Celinda in Spanish — same name
- Celia in Italian — related form
- Celinda in Portuguese — same name
Celindas among us
people named Celinda are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 321,453 born in 2025 was named Celinda
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Valeta test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Celinda's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Valeta climbed just as high around 1927, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Valeta's path sketches the road Celinda is walking now.
Celinda sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Celinda beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Celinda in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Celia and Linda are both complete standing names, so it shortens two very different ways.
- It works in Spanish and English without respelling.
- Three open syllables that sit well after almost any surname.
- Selinda, Celinda and Zelinda all appear, so the spelling has to be given.
- It belongs to a mid-century American generation and carries that flavor.
- Its meaning cannot be given flatly, since the Roman clan name is unexplained.
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Frequently asked
- How many Celindas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Celinda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Celinda in 2025?
- Celinda ranks #14942 among US girl names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Celinda?
- About 1 in every 321,453 US girls born in 2025 was named Celinda — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Celinda with classmates?
- Celinda will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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