Entry № 1832 · Latin origin

Celestine Celestine — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SEL-eh-steen /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Heavenly (the Celestine Prophecy + Saint Celestine V)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Latin)

A name that means "heavenly (the celestine prophecy + saint celestine v)".

Celestine is from the Latin caelestis (heavenly) — also borne by five popes and multiple saints. Celestine of Pamplona — 13th-century medieval queen.

Heavenly (the Celestine Prophecy + Saint Celestine V) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Celestine
Transliteration
Celestine
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɛl.ə.stiːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Celestine stands.

Celestine does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Celestines before her.

Real people
Pope Celestine V
First pope to resign.
1215 – 1296
In fiction
The Celestine Prophecy
Redfield's bestseller.
1993

Names connected to Celestine.

The number behind Celestine.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Celestine reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.