Celine
A Latin name meaning "heavenly", carried into Poland through its French form. Fewer than 150 women here have it, so most Poles will never meet one, though newborns are ticking up again.
Celine Pronunciation
Celine is pronounced tse-LEE-ne (/t͡sɛˈlinɛ/).
What Celine means
Where Celine comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Celine descends from the Latin caelum, meaning sky or heaven. The Roman family name Caelina grew from that root. French speakers softened it into Céline, and that spelling held through centuries of French use.
The heavenly sense sits inside the origin here. Caelum was the vault above Rome, the open sky. So niebiańska, heavenly, reads as a plain translation of the root rather than a meaning attached to the name later.
One early bearer was Saint Céline of Laon, mother of Saint Remigius, the bishop who baptised Clovis. Her feast falls on 21 October. A Polish official form at the urząd still asks for the name in full, and the answer runs back to a single Latin word for the sky.
How many people are named Celine
1 in 153359 women in Poland is named Celine. 147 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2673 among female names.
Celine's popularity over time
4 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1021 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2021.
Where Celine is most popular
Celine is most popular in Lubusz, 1351% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+817%).
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Lubusz2 girls born+1351%
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Lower Silesian4 girls born+817%
Celine as a middle name
Celine is a first name for 147 women in Poland and a middle name for another 58, a 72/28 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 892nd, between Annabelle (58) and Dagmar (58).
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#890 Alison58
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#891 Annabelle58
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#892 Celine58
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#893 Dagmar58
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#894 Eligia58