Meaning not yet researched.
Selina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 176 in 2025. Its best rank was #372 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #372 in 1995; #1,278 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Selina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,278 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #372.
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Selina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 176 girls in 2025. Peak: #372 in 1995 · most girls in one year: 704 (1995).
In 2025, 176 US girls were named Selina, making it the 1,278th most common girls’ name of the year, up 35 places from #1,313 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 176 girls named Selina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #372, reached in 1995. That year also had the most girls given the name: 704. For comparison, it was #1,142 in 2015 and #1,864 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Selina in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 10 babies. In all, 19,225 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 4,175 babies named Selina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,883 US girls were named Selina; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 229. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,132 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Selina ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #725 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Selena (59,944 babies since 1880), Celina (16,301 babies since 1880) and Celena (4,789 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Seline, Celiana and Zeliana 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: Seline (585), Celiana (28), Zeliana (22), Cellina (20), Celinna (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 Selina 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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 9 | #725 | #1,269 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #751 | — |
| Illinois | 10 | #916 | #1,271 |
| California | 31 | #937 | #656 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #1,018 | #1,341 |
| New York | 14 | #1,079 | #636 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,095 | #1,105 |
| Florida | 14 | #1,103 | #2,361 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,181 | — |
| Texas | 16 | #1,522 | #1,527 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,668 | #963 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 176 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 2024 | 176 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 2023 | 168 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 2022 | 163 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 2021 | 176 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 2020 | 158 | #1,385 | — | — |
| 2019 | 205 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 2018 | 229 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 2017 | 214 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 2016 | 218 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 2015 | 222 | #1,142 | — | — |
| 2014 | 249 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 2013 | 213 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 2012 | 242 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 2011 | 224 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 2010 | 219 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 2009 | 253 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 2008 | 277 | #969 | — | — |
| 2007 | 291 | #930 | — | — |
| 2006 | 295 | #901 | — | — |
| 2005 | 295 | #859 | — | — |
| 2004 | 240 | #989 | — | — |
| 2003 | 238 | #975 | — | — |
| 2002 | 262 | #874 | — | — |
| 2001 | 262 | #878 | — | — |
| 2000 | 279 | #814 | — | — |
| 1999 | 348 | #660 | — | — |
| 1998 | 336 | #681 | — | — |
| 1997 | 357 | #629 | — | — |
| 1996 | 376 | #609 | — | — |
| 1995 | 704 | #372 | — | — |
| 1994 | 614 | #409 | — | — |
| 1993 | 496 | #499 | — | — |
| 1992 | 363 | #625 | — | — |
| 1991 | 311 | #689 | — | — |
| 1990 | 270 | #764 | — | — |
| 1989 | 331 | #635 | — | — |
| 1988 | 231 | #801 | — | — |
| 1987 | 248 | #731 | — | — |
| 1986 | 265 | #689 | — | — |
| 1985 | 264 | #682 | — | — |
| 1984 | 251 | #677 | — | — |
| 1983 | 255 | #672 | — | — |
| 1982 | 287 | #628 | — | — |
| 1981 | 294 | #618 | — | — |
| 1980 | 233 | #720 | — | — |
| 1979 | 242 | #701 | — | — |
| 1978 | 288 | #593 | — | — |
| 1977 | 399 | #480 | — | — |
| 1976 | 201 | #735 | — | — |
| 1975 | 154 | #870 | — | — |
| 1974 | 198 | #727 | — | — |
| 1973 | 220 | #681 | — | — |
| 1972 | 198 | #722 | — | — |
| 1971 | 222 | #689 | — | — |
| 1970 | 150 | #888 | — | — |
| 1969 | 146 | #866 | — | — |
| 1968 | 198 | #689 | — | — |
| 1967 | 232 | #626 | — | — |
| 1966 | 269 | #576 | — | — |
| 1965 | 244 | #626 | — | — |
| 1964 | 195 | #747 | — | — |
| 1963 | 246 | #644 | — | — |
| 1962 | 246 | #645 | — | — |
| 1961 | 205 | #728 | — | — |
| 1960 | 167 | #799 | — | — |
| 1959 | 148 | #841 | — | — |
| 1958 | 103 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1957 | 68 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 1956 | 58 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 1955 | 53 | #1,379 | — | — |
| 1954 | 61 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 1953 | 36 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 1952 | 36 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 1951 | 54 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,864 | — | — |
| 1949 | 28 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,864 | — | — |
| 1945 | 27 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 1944 | 19 | #2,016 | — | — |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,828 | — | — |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,398 | — | — |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,517 | — | — |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,557 | — | — |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,555 | — | — |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,296 | — | — |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,251 | — | — |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,903 | — | — |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,165 | — | — |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,897 | — | — |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,224 | — | — |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,559 | — | — |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,945 | — | — |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 1927 | 20 | #2,012 | — | — |
| 1926 | 33 | #1,409 | — | — |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,600 | — | — |
| 1924 | 34 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1923 | 37 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 1922 | 32 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,913 | — | — |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 1919 | 37 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 1918 | 47 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 1917 | 32 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1916 | 36 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1915 | 27 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 1913 | 20 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 1912 | 27 | #998 | — | — |
| 1911 | 19 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1910 | 19 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1908 | 13 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 1907 | 19 | #893 | — | — |
| 1906 | 15 | #999 | — | — |
| 1905 | 19 | #866 | — | — |
| 1904 | 16 | #932 | — | — |
| 1903 | 20 | #787 | — | — |
| 1902 | 13 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1901 | 17 | #823 | — | — |
| 1900 | 27 | #702 | — | — |
| 1899 | 13 | #931 | — | — |
| 1898 | 22 | #713 | — | — |
| 1897 | 22 | #675 | — | — |
| 1896 | 17 | #810 | — | — |
| 1895 | 26 | #604 | — | — |
| 1894 | 11 | #989 | — | — |
| 1893 | 12 | #894 | — | — |
| 1892 | 19 | #682 | — | — |
| 1891 | 19 | #623 | — | — |
| 1890 | 24 | #546 | — | — |
| 1889 | 18 | #614 | — | — |
| 1888 | 13 | #750 | — | — |
| 1887 | 15 | #605 | — | — |
| 1886 | 9 | #819 | — | — |
| 1885 | 11 | #693 | — | — |
| 1884 | 11 | #676 | — | — |
| 1883 | 14 | #534 | — | — |
| 1881 | 9 | #619 | — | — |
| 1880 | 10 | #574 | — | — |
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).