Entry № 1831 · Latin origin

Celestina Celestina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sel-eh-STEE-nuh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Heavenly (Fernando de Rojas's La Celestina)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "heavenly (fernando de rojas's la celestina)".

Celestina is the Spanish and Italian form of Celestine — from the Latin caelestis (heavenly). A modern revival in the vintage-Iberian aesthetic. Saint Celestina is venerated in Italian tradition (a feminization of Pope Celestine V).

Heavenly (Fernando de Rojas's La Celestina) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Celestina
Transliteration
Celestina
Pronunciation
/ ˌsɛl.əˈstiː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Celestina stands.

Celestina 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.

Celestinas before her.

Real people
Celestina Cordero
First Puerto Rican girls' school founder.
1787 – 1862
In fiction
Celestina
Rojas's La Celestina.
1499

Names connected to Celestina.

The number behind Celestina.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Celestina reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.