Meaning not yet researched.
Salena: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #799 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #799 in 1977; #10,763 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Salena in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,763 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #799.
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Salena: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #799 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 197 (1995).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Salena, making it the 10,763rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,868 places from #7,895 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 14 girls named Salena in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #799, reached in 1977. The most girls given the name in a single year was 197, in 1995. For comparison, it was #4,477 in 2015 and #3,912 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Salena in 109 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1889 with 5 babies. In all, 5,163 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,413 babies named Salena.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 201 US girls were named Salena; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Selena (59,944 babies since 1880) and Salina (7,239 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zaleena are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zaleena (13).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Salena in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,763 | — | — |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,895 | — | — |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,985 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,238 | — | — |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,637 | — | — |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,820 | — | — |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,588 | — | — |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,589 | — | — |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,135 | — | — |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,106 | — | — |
| 2015 | 32 | #4,477 | — | — |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,146 | — | — |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,142 | — | — |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,353 | — | — |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,544 | — | — |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,245 | — | — |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,961 | — | — |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,153 | — | — |
| 2007 | 58 | #3,044 | — | — |
| 2006 | 55 | #3,082 | — | — |
| 2005 | 69 | #2,521 | — | — |
| 2004 | 80 | #2,227 | — | — |
| 2003 | 87 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 2002 | 73 | #2,260 | — | — |
| 2001 | 102 | #1,761 | — | — |
| 2000 | 109 | #1,629 | — | — |
| 1999 | 129 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 1998 | 137 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 1997 | 146 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 1996 | 171 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1995 | 197 | #959 | — | — |
| 1994 | 145 | #1,215 | — | — |
| 1993 | 154 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1992 | 119 | #1,391 | — | — |
| 1991 | 103 | #1,512 | — | — |
| 1990 | 112 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1989 | 123 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 1988 | 108 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1987 | 112 | #1,265 | — | — |
| 1986 | 99 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 1985 | 80 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 1984 | 88 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 1983 | 78 | #1,481 | — | — |
| 1982 | 81 | #1,487 | — | — |
| 1981 | 94 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 1980 | 80 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1979 | 112 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 1978 | 121 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 1977 | 188 | #799 | — | — |
| 1976 | 97 | #1,179 | — | — |
| 1975 | 68 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 1974 | 80 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1973 | 84 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 1972 | 60 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 1971 | 67 | #1,512 | — | — |
| 1970 | 53 | #1,733 | — | — |
| 1969 | 47 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 1968 | 34 | #2,082 | — | — |
| 1967 | 45 | #1,723 | — | — |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,340 | — | — |
| 1965 | 36 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,654 | — | — |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,917 | — | — |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,911 | — | — |
| 1961 | 32 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,498 | — | — |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,741 | — | — |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,650 | — | — |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,125 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,838 | — | — |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,537 | — | — |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,461 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,375 | — | — |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,747 | — | — |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,747 | — | — |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,912 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,151 | — | — |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,572 | — | — |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,199 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,136 | — | — |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,781 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,972 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,178 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,822 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,098 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,766 | — | — |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,177 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,510 | — | — |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,375 | — | — |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,347 | — | — |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,313 | — | — |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,957 | — | — |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,386 | — | — |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,976 | — | — |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,736 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,216 | — | — |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,214 | — | — |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,099 | — | — |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,603 | — | — |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,128 | — | — |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,598 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,837 | — | — |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,413 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,804 | — | — |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,762 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,779 | — | — |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,457 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).