Selina
Selina reached its high-water mark in 1995 at number 371, and has been recorded 19,225 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,272nd. About 17,000 Selinas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Selina
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 19,225
- Estimated living today
- 17,000
- Median age today
- 32
- Peak year
- 1995
- Best rank
- 371st
- Rank in 2025
- 1,272nd
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Selinas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 19,225 babies given the name since 1880, about 17,000 are alive — 90 in every hundred. Roughly 3,800 of them are children and 820 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
First recorded in England in the 17th century, possibly or a variant of Selene, the goddess of the moon.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Selinas
- Selina Gasparin (born 1984)Swiss biathlete
- Selina Jen (born 1981)Taiwanese singer, actress and television host
- Selina Freitag (born 2001)German ski jumper
- Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1707–1791)British countess
- Selina Jörg (born 1988)German snowboarder
- Selina Büchel (born 1991)Swiss middle-distance runner
- Selina Chönz (1910–2000)Swiss author
- Selina Grotian (born 2004)German baithlete
People named Selina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Selina is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Selina is most concentrated in Arizona (2.7×), California (2.3×), Florida (1.9×), Texas (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1995
The most popular girls’ names the year Selina peaked:
Selina elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria girls | Selina | 6,814 | 8th |
| Switzerland girls | Selina | 3,684 | 18th |
| England and Wales girls | Selina | 1,946 | 248th |
| France girls | Selina +1 spelling | 1,025 | 1,091st |
| Belgium girls | Selina +1 spelling | 697 | 197th |
| Italy girls | Selina | 614 | — |
| Norway girls | Selina | 515 | 223rd |
| Ireland girls | Selina | 378 | 166th |
| Scotland girls | Selina | 242 | 184th |
| Poland girls | Selina | 35 birth registrations | 396th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Selina | 3 | 358th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Selina: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Selina | 3,569 | 0.287% | 15th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Selina | 56 | 0.013% | 330th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Selina | 34 | 0.052% | 47th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Selina | 25 | 0.672% | 1st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Selina is most concentrated in Graubünden, where 0.50% of children were given it – 191 of them.
Selina: rank by region
In 2025, Selina was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Selina | 370 | 14 |
| Brussels | Selina | 244 | 5 |
In 2025, Selina was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Małopolskie | Selina | 232 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Selina appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (244th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Selina by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 58 | 175th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Selina among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Selina | 2,074 | 2,734 |
| Finland girls | Selina +1 spelling | 898 | 2,064 |
| the Netherlands boys | Selina | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Selina lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 384 women called Selina were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asturias | Selina | 42 | 0.079 | 847 |
| Balears, Illes | Selina | 20 | 0.032 | 1,778 |
| Rioja, La | Selina | 5 | 0.030 | 1,693 |
| Badajoz | Selina | 10 | 0.030 | 1,175 |
| Valencia/València | Selina | 28 | 0.020 | 2,114 |
| Palmas, Las | Selina | 12 | 0.020 | 3,267 |
Listed in 17 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 35 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Selina against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.