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I think it's very nice. I like the Polish spelling Celestyna, too.

I love Celestina! One of my Italian great-grandmothers bore the name. Its beauty is so lavish, smoldering, and unabashedly extreme!

I have a huge love / hate thing for Celeste, Celesta, Celestia, Celestine, and Celestina.

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Part of me just loves these names and part of me hates them.

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The hate comes from it reminding me so much of the word molest.
Celeste sounds like molest.
Celestine sounds like molesting.
Celestia sounds like molest with ee-ah on the end.
Celesta sounds like molest-ah and almost molester.
Celestina sounds like molest Tina.

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Celestia is my favorite because it reminds me the least of molest. Celestina isn't so bad. Celestine is the worst but Celeste is second worst on the molest creepy factor.

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I like it as a GP.

It doesn't have the same cold feeling to me as Celeste, but it seems over the top.

Celestina: A Broken Doll

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The produced image in my mind is that of a sad, cracked porcelain doll under a thick coat of dust, and a gaping hole where a sweet blue eye once sat.
Celestina just radiates delicate, infantile, unsteady sensations.

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If it were to be used, I would rather see it in the place of a middlename.
The pronunciation Sehl-Lehst is greatly unattractive, I think.
Celestine is slightly better, sans -a.

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- Francesca

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This message was edited 9/10/2012, 4:09 PM

Love Celestine but not fond of Celestina, it's still better than lots of other names I imagine you hear in a classroom.