Salena
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · girls
- 1977 · 188 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,163since 1889
Salena over time
Rank among girls' names. Salena has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 |
| 2022 | #6,984 | 16 |
| 2021 | #6,414 | 18 |
| 2020 | #5,667 | 21 |
| 2019 | #5,449 | 23 |
| 2018 | #5,454 | 23 |
| 2017 | #4,066 | 36 |
| 2016 | #4,990 | 27 |
| 2015 | #4,403 | 32 |
| 2014 | #5,025 | 27 |
| 2013 | #4,076 | 36 |
| 2012 | #3,314 | 49 |
| 2011 | #3,496 | 45 |
| 2010 | #3,203 | 51 |
| 2009 | #2,940 | 59 |
| 2008 | #3,120 | 54 |
| 2007 | #3,023 | 58 |
| 2006 | #3,054 | 55 |
| 2005 | #2,503 | 69 |
| 2004 | #2,204 | 80 |
| 2003 | #2,048 | 87 |
| 2002 | #2,251 | 73 |
| 2001 | #1,750 | 102 |
| 2000 | #1,617 | 109 |
| 1999 | #1,371 | 129 |
| 1998 | #1,300 | 137 |
| 1997 | #1,225 | 146 |
| 1996 | #1,079 | 171 |
| 1995 | #953 | 197 |
| 1994 | #1,209 | 145 |
| 1993 | #1,148 | 154 |
| 1992 | #1,381 | 119 |
| 1991 | #1,505 | 103 |
| 1990 | #1,410 | 112 |
| 1989 | #1,277 | 123 |
| 1988 | #1,327 | 108 |
| 1987 | #1,257 | 112 |
| 1986 | #1,327 | 99 |
| 1985 | #1,523 | 80 |
| 1984 | #1,355 | 88 |
| 1983 | #1,475 | 78 |
| 1982 | #1,474 | 81 |
| 1981 | #1,328 | 94 |
| 1980 | #1,494 | 80 |
| 1979 | #1,178 | 112 |
| 1978 | #1,085 | 121 |
| 1977 | #796 | 188 |
| 1976 | #1,172 | 97 |
| 1975 | #1,498 | 68 |
| 1974 | #1,323 | 80 |
| 1973 | #1,239 | 84 |
| 1972 | #1,541 | 60 |
| 1971 | #1,500 | 67 |
| 1970 | #1,719 | 53 |
| 1969 | #1,784 | 47 |
| 1968 | #2,056 | 34 |
| 1967 | #1,702 | 45 |
| 1966 | #2,308 | 27 |
| 1965 | #1,914 | 36 |
| 1964 | #2,600 | 23 |
| 1963 | #1,894 | 38 |
| 1962 | #1,889 | 37 |
| 1961 | #2,070 | 32 |
| 1960 | #2,432 | 24 |
| 1959 | #2,678 | 19 |
| 1958 | #2,581 | 20 |
| 1957 | #3,033 | 15 |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 |
| 1955 | #2,472 | 20 |
| 1954 | #3,325 | 12 |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
| 1952 | #3,552 | 10 |
| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 |
| 1950 | #3,662 | 9 |
| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 |
| 1948 | #4,205 | 7 |
| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 |
| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 |
| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,666 | 12 |
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 |
| 1940 | — | |
| 1939 | #3,782 | 6 |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 |
| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 |
| 1935 | — | |
| 1934 | — | |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 |
| 1932 | — | |
| 1931 | — | |
| 1930 | — | |
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 |
| 1928 | — | |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | #4,851 | 5 |
| 1925 | #4,028 | 7 |
| 1924 | #3,144 | 10 |
| 1923 | #3,971 | 7 |
| 1922 | #3,655 | 8 |
| 1921 | #4,023 | 7 |
| 1920 | — | |
| 1919 | #2,813 | 11 |
| 1918 | #4,291 | 6 |
| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 |
| 1916 | #3,031 | 9 |
| 1915 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1914 | #2,434 | 9 |
| 1913 | #2,827 | 6 |
| 1912 | #2,360 | 7 |
| 1911 | — | |
| 1910 | — | |
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| 1908 | — | |
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| 1906 | — | |
| 1905 | — | |
| 1904 | #1,659 | 6 |
| 1903 | #1,440 | 7 |
| 1902 | — | |
| 1901 | — | |
| 1900 | #1,319 | 9 |
| 1899 | #1,596 | 5 |
| 1898 | — | |
| 1897 | #1,555 | 5 |
| 1896 | #1,583 | 5 |
| 1895 | — | |
| 1894 | — | |
| 1893 | #1,091 | 8 |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | #1,279 | 5 |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Salena! It came in at #1,279, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1889–1892, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Salena is popular in 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#1,215 · 1 in 11,051
- California#2,208 · 1 in 24,747
Best ever in a state: #389 in Iowa, 1989.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #1,215 | 5 | 1 in 11,051 |
| California | #2,208 | 9 | 1 in 24,747 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Salena
- 2,513 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #10,107)
- 4,440 spots since 2020 (#5,667 → #10,107)
- 5,704 spots since 2015 (#4,403 → #10,107)
- Biggest jump: 376 spots in 1977 (#1,172 → #796)
- Biggest drop: 289 spots in 1978 (#796 → #1,085)
- Debuted 1889
- Peaked 1977 at #796 (188 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1977–1995
- Highest: 1 in 8,155 girls born in 1977 were named Salena (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 27.4% of all girls named Salena (1,413) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #1,279 (1889) | #1,279 |
| 1890s | 23 | #1,091 (1893) | #1,456 |
| 1900s | 22 | #1,319 (1900) | #1,473 |
| 1910s | 62 | #2,360 (1912) | #3,156 |
| 1920s | 49 | #3,144 (1924) | #4,035 |
| 1930s | 22 | #3,701 (1936) | #3,989 |
| 1940s | 41 | #2,666 (1942) | #4,214 |
| 1950s | 123 | #2,472 (1955) | #3,669 |
| 1960s | 343 | #1,702 (1967) | #2,065 |
| 1970s | 930 | #796 (1977) | #1,305 |
| 1980s | 943 | #1,257 (1987) | #1,384 |
| 1990s | 1,413 | #953 (1995) | #1,258 |
| 2000s | 746 | #1,617 (2000) | #2,451 |
| 2010s | 349 | #3,203 (2010) | #4,348 |
| 2020s | 92 | #5,667 (2020) | #7,401 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Salena in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 24,615 of them was named Salena, which outranked 87.6% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,228Selma74
- #2,228Skyy74
- #2,228Zaida74
- #2,251Salena73
- #2,251Aline73
- #2,251Avianna73
- #2,251Dinah73
- #2,263Alexie72
- #2,263Alexzandria72
- #2,263Allissa72
Tied with 11 names at #2,251; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.