Salena

Where Salena comes from

Salena hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1889
    First appearance
    #1,279 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1944
    Salena Jones born
    Jazz singer
  3. 1972
    Salena Godden born
    British poet, author and musician
  4. 1977
    Peak, #796
    188 babies named Salena — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1980
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,494.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Salena Godden · British poet, author and musician, born 1972
  • Salena Jones · Jazz singer, born 1944
  • Salena Zito · American journalist, born 1959

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.