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Selena
Pronounced /səˈlinə/
Rank in 2024
#245
Born in 2024
1,289
Peak year
1995 · #91
Origin
Ancient Greek
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,289 girls were named Selena, about 1 in every 1,252.
- It peaked in 1995 with 3,825 babies, ranked #91.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 58,696 girls have been named Selena since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Selena per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 0.4Millennials1981–96
- 0.8Gen Z1997–12
- 0.7Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 815 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Silent: 659 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,302 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen X: 6,699 babies, 0.26 per 1,000. Millennials: 11,559 babies, 0.41 per 1,000. Gen Z: 21,832 babies, 0.75 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 14,565 babies, 0.72 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Either a variant of Selina, from Latin Caelīna (“heavenly”, from caelum (“sky, heaven”)), or from Selene, the Ancient Greek goddess of the moon.
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- Origin
- Ancient Greek
- Say it
- /səˈlinə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Selena, CC BY-SA 4.0.