Celine

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Lynn in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 8 more, Celina in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, MX Mexico and 4 more, Lan in VN Vietnam, MY Malaysia and Lyn in PH Philippines.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Celine is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name3.3K records spelled Celine2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

  Also written Céline

• a separate given name3.1K records spelled Celine6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Switzerland, Belgium

  Also written Céline, Celiné, Cêline, Cèline, Celinè

• Catalan given name647 records spelled Celine2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain

  Also written Céline

77 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Celine is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Albanian, indefinite dative/ablative singular of celinë

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latvian, Ceļteka ("Plantago")

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 121 years between 1893–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Maggie De Blockb. 1962BEnot in their usual nameFlemish politician (born 1962)
• Céline Bonnierb. 1965CACanadian actress
• Céline Dionb. 1968CAFrench Canadian singer (born 1968)
• Céline Lebrunb. 1976FRFrench judoka
• Céline Sciammab. 1978FRFrench director and screenwriter (born 1978)
• Katsunib. 1979FRnot in their usual nameFrench pornographic actress
• Céline Salletteb. 1980FRFrench actress
• Céline Dumercb. 1982FRFrench basketball player (born 1982)
• Celine Songb. 1988KRSouth Korean-Canadian director and writer
• Celine Buckensb. 1996BEBelgian actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 831 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Celine?

We estimate roughly 493 thousand people bear Celine (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Celine have the most bearers?

Celine is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled lynn.

How common is Celine compared with other names?

In the United Kingdom, Celine is the 52nd most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.

Is Celine a male or female name?

Celine is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Celine mean?

Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French Céline in the 20th century.