Meaning not yet researched.
Salina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #495 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #495 in 1977; #4,154 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Salina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,154 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #495.
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Salina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 girls in 2025. Peak: #495 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 385 (1977).
In 2025, 35 US girls were named Salina, making it the 4,154th most common girls’ name of the year, up 605 places from #4,759 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 29 girls named Salina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #495, reached in 1977. That year also had the most girls given the name: 385. For comparison, it was #3,752 in 2015 and #4,663 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Salina in 123 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 6 babies. In all, 7,239 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,827 babies named Salina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 351 US girls were named Salina; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 45,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Salena (5,163 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Saleena, Zalena and Zalina 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: Saleena (776), Zalena (112), Zalina (96), Salana (36), Salyna (33), Saleana (16), Saeliana (15), Salayna (5).
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 Salina 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 | 35 | #4,154 | — | — |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,759 | — | — |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,972 | — | — |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,951 | — | — |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,312 | — | — |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,526 | — | — |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,775 | — | — |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,062 | — | — |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,058 | — | — |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,227 | — | — |
| 2015 | 41 | #3,752 | — | — |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,039 | — | — |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,834 | — | — |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,974 | — | — |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,757 | — | — |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,739 | — | — |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,882 | — | — |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,917 | — | — |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,988 | — | — |
| 2006 | 80 | #2,370 | — | — |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,752 | — | — |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,474 | — | — |
| 2003 | 82 | #2,141 | — | — |
| 2002 | 88 | #2,001 | — | — |
| 2001 | 93 | #1,883 | — | — |
| 2000 | 98 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 1999 | 109 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 1998 | 117 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 1997 | 131 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 1996 | 142 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 1995 | 233 | #839 | — | — |
| 1994 | 262 | #783 | — | — |
| 1993 | 252 | #801 | — | — |
| 1992 | 205 | #947 | — | — |
| 1991 | 198 | #959 | — | — |
| 1990 | 178 | #1,023 | — | — |
| 1989 | 194 | #928 | — | — |
| 1988 | 180 | #939 | — | — |
| 1987 | 151 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 1986 | 160 | #985 | — | — |
| 1985 | 156 | #985 | — | — |
| 1984 | 162 | #921 | — | — |
| 1983 | 168 | #901 | — | — |
| 1982 | 192 | #821 | — | — |
| 1981 | 186 | #843 | — | — |
| 1980 | 186 | #842 | — | — |
| 1979 | 169 | #891 | — | — |
| 1978 | 202 | #766 | — | — |
| 1977 | 385 | #495 | — | — |
| 1976 | 161 | #851 | — | — |
| 1975 | 90 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 1974 | 103 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 1973 | 92 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1972 | 81 | #1,275 | — | — |
| 1971 | 98 | #1,175 | — | — |
| 1970 | 39 | #2,111 | — | — |
| 1969 | 47 | #1,801 | — | — |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 1967 | 46 | #1,696 | — | — |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,341 | — | — |
| 1965 | 33 | #2,056 | — | — |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,102 | — | — |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,477 | — | — |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,983 | — | — |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,991 | — | — |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,289 | — | — |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,400 | — | — |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,441 | — | — |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,487 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,839 | — | — |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,122 | — | — |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,989 | — | — |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,527 | — | — |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,908 | — | — |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,674 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,663 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,180 | — | — |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,810 | — | — |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,414 | — | — |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,963 | — | — |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,750 | — | — |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,151 | — | — |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,446 | — | — |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,644 | — | — |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,639 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,721 | — | — |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,237 | — | — |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,327 | — | — |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,950 | — | — |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,322 | — | — |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,958 | — | — |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,968 | — | — |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,555 | — | — |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,785 | — | — |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,226 | — | — |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,850 | — | — |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,501 | — | — |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,388 | — | — |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,782 | — | — |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,117 | — | — |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,163 | — | — |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,380 | — | — |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,187 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #2,042 | — | — |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,564 | — | — |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,669 | — | — |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,776 | — | — |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1882 | 6 | #887 | — | — |
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).