Meaning not yet researched.
Selah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,416 in 2025. Its best rank was #216 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99% of babies named Selah in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#216 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Selah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,416 girls in 2025. Peak: #216 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 1,416 (2025).
In 2025, 1,416 US girls were named Selah, making it the 216th most common girls’ name of the year, up 63 places from #279 in 2024. That is 282 more than the 1,134 girls named Selah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #216, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,416. For comparison, it was #461 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Selah in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 6 babies. In all, 15,394 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,247 babies named Selah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,828 US girls were named Selah; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,416. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,135 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Selah ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #103 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zylah (1,445 babies since 1880) and Sela (1,328 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zela, Seylah and Syla 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zela (609), Seylah (281), Syla (204), Zilah (192), Seela (113), Seyla (101), Sylah (96), Cela (90), Cylah (80), Zelah (75), Seila (74), Silah (63), and more.
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 Selah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 10 | #103 | #261 |
| Indiana | 50 | #133 | #439 |
| South Dakota | 9 | #138 | — |
| District of Columbia | 6 | #143 | — |
| North Carolina | 65 | #158 | #448 |
| South Carolina | 30 | #160 | #293 |
| Hawaii | 6 | #161 | — |
| Florida | 109 | #163 | #430 |
| Tennessee | 46 | #169 | #505 |
| Virginia | 48 | #172 | #324 |
| Idaho | 13 | #174 | — |
| New Mexico | 9 | #180 | — |
| Arizona | 37 | #182 | #312 |
| Georgia | 57 | #186 | #551 |
| Colorado | 32 | #189 | #292 |
| Pennsylvania | 60 | #193 | #399 |
| Michigan | 46 | #198 | #281 |
| Nebraska | 12 | #198 | — |
| Ohio | 56 | #204 | #453 |
| California | 155 | #213 | #470 |
| Kentucky | 22 | #213 | — |
| Texas | 152 | #230 | #555 |
| Alabama | 21 | #234 | #242 |
| Missouri | 27 | #236 | #603 |
| Maryland | 22 | #240 | #447 |
| Oregon | 16 | #241 | #378 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #246 | #214 |
| Wisconsin | 23 | #246 | #389 |
| Kansas | 13 | #253 | #451 |
| Minnesota | 22 | #261 | #321 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #268 | — |
| Washington | 27 | #272 | #407 |
| Connecticut | 12 | #279 | — |
| Nevada | 10 | #286 | — |
| Illinois | 38 | #288 | #473 |
| Oklahoma | 15 | #292 | #319 |
| Mississippi | 10 | #297 | #556 |
| New Jersey | 25 | #336 | #840 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #367 | #677 |
| Iowa | 9 | #383 | #406 |
| Louisiana | 11 | #422 | #1,020 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #472 | #943 |
| New York | 32 | #530 | #1,060 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,416 | #216 | 13 | #6,741 |
| 2024 | 1,134 | #279 | 21 | #4,852 |
| 2023 | 1,027 | #301 | 12 | #7,226 |
| 2022 | 885 | #358 | 8 | #9,690 |
| 2021 | 828 | #378 | 9 | #8,721 |
| 2020 | 722 | #425 | 13 | #6,564 |
| 2019 | 701 | #445 | 8 | #9,603 |
| 2018 | 732 | #432 | 15 | #5,997 |
| 2017 | 695 | #457 | 10 | #8,041 |
| 2016 | 688 | #464 | — | — |
| 2015 | 690 | #461 | 7 | #10,441 |
| 2014 | 577 | #540 | 6 | #11,878 |
| 2013 | 552 | #538 | — | — |
| 2012 | 575 | #527 | 6 | #12,030 |
| 2011 | 506 | #576 | 11 | #7,421 |
| 2010 | 460 | #645 | 8 | #9,528 |
| 2009 | 419 | #695 | 7 | #10,781 |
| 2008 | 380 | #773 | 5 | #14,262 |
| 2007 | 344 | #833 | — | — |
| 2006 | 324 | #832 | 6 | #11,812 |
| 2005 | 263 | #944 | 5 | #13,028 |
| 2004 | 179 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 2003 | 179 | #1,198 | 10 | #7,153 |
| 2002 | 154 | #1,280 | 7 | #9,219 |
| 2001 | 124 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 2000 | 116 | #1,549 | 8 | #8,080 |
| 1999 | 100 | #1,665 | 7 | #8,561 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,795 | 5 | #11,023 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,529 | — | — |
| 1996 | 40 | #3,016 | — | — |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,967 | — | — |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,930 | — | — |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,358 | — | — |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,222 | — | — |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,893 | — | — |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,759 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,484 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,241 | — | — |
| 1987 | 16 | #5,032 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,078 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,151 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,107 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,779 | — | — |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,491 | — | — |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,709 | — | — |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,234 | — | — |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,180 | — | — |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,874 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,418 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,988 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,506 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,483 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,037 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,634 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,443 | — | — |
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).