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The meaning isn't attractive to me; it just isn't human. And the sound isn't anything special. I knew a Celeste once who hated her name with a white-hot passion, accused her parents of the worst kind of sentimentality and insisted on being called Sally! Which I like very much. In the Babar stories, his wife, the Queen of the Elephants, is Celeste, which is mildly amusing; when we were about 6, my friend's family got a kitten which she insisted had to be named Celeste because we were reading Babar and loving it; this happened, but it was usually just called Kitty.