Sela
- #4,661 for girls in 2025, 29 births
- Peak · girls
- 2000 · 81 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,328since 1950
Sela over time
Rank among girls' names. Sela has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,661 | 29 |
| 2024 | #4,114 | 35 |
| 2023 | #4,999 | 26 |
| 2022 | #5,309 | 24 |
| 2021 | #5,748 | 21 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 |
| 2018 | #3,438 | 45 |
| 2017 | #4,922 | 27 |
| 2016 | #5,796 | 22 |
| 2015 | #4,725 | 29 |
| 2014 | #4,269 | 34 |
| 2013 | #4,755 | 29 |
| 2012 | #4,047 | 37 |
| 2011 | #3,603 | 43 |
| 2010 | #4,608 | 31 |
| 2009 | #3,298 | 50 |
| 2008 | #3,267 | 51 |
| 2007 | #2,858 | 63 |
| 2006 | #2,631 | 68 |
| 2005 | #2,636 | 64 |
| 2004 | #3,224 | 47 |
| 2003 | #2,522 | 64 |
| 2002 | #2,554 | 61 |
| 2001 | #2,379 | 66 |
| 2000 | #2,034 | 81 |
| 1999 | #3,639 | 33 |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 |
| 1996 | #3,569 | 31 |
| 1995 | #3,670 | 29 |
| 1994 | #4,845 | 20 |
| 1993 | #4,826 | 20 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 |
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| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 |
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| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 |
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| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
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| 1957 | #4,918 | 7 |
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| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 |
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| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sela! It came in at #5,301, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1950–1956, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Sela is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,767 · 1 in 26,954
Best ever in a state: #625 in Oregon, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #2,767 | 6 | 1 in 26,954 |
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See more about Sela
- 547 spots since 2024 (#4,114 → #4,661)
- 1,422 spots since 2020 (#6,083 → #4,661)
- 64 spots since 2015 (#4,725 → #4,661)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 2000 at #2,034 (81 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,420 girls born in 2000 were named Sela (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 55,423 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 46.3% of all girls named Sela (615) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 17 | #4,918 (1957) | #5,324 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 13 | #8,061 (1979) | #8,253 |
| 1980s | 17 | #6,788 (1987) | #7,656 |
| 1990s | 188 | #3,569 (1996) | #6,168 |
| 2000s | 615 | #2,034 (2000) | #2,740 |
| 2010s | 324 | #3,438 (2018) | #4,507 |
| 2020s | 154 | #4,114 (2024) | #5,152 |
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.
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