Celine for a first name

[mare]

Carl, it wouldn't be illegal to use another name of choice in the way your mother did. She may have preferred it to Jane, not as plain  or influenced by the nuns and being more heavenly  ... or did she  read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  imagine she would have had mention of the brigantine reference numerous times!

[carlolsen]

  That could be it.
                                       Thanks.
                                                  Carl,
                                                         

[Bikerchick64]

Mare, thank you.  You must have a better search engine that I do.  I have typed in Celine and haven't found any relation to Poland at all...  This will help with the family history I am writing up for my family, mostly myself.  My mother is dead, so I cannot ask her the reasoning behind all the names, but I guessed it would be either 1) a name of a relative  or 2) just a name she liked.  So, my sister Celine is either named after a saint or a relative (or both? ), my sister Kathy is named after my father's mother and my father (Kathleen Frances), my brother is named after my father, and I was named after a bird.  Seriously.  No joking there. 

[eadaoin]

just for background on the name ...

it's not an very uncommon name in Ireland - I know 2 both born 1940s.
I looked at the familysearch site for Ireland
... 10 or 12 before 1926
... 400 - 450 (includes births and deaths so some doubling-up) between 1926 and 1958.

eadaoin