Selah
#216 for girls in 2025, 1,416 births · #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
Given to girls 98.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 1,416 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 15,187since 1962
Selah over time
Rank among girls' names. Selah has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #216 | 1,416 | #6,446 | 13 |
| 2024 | #279 | 1,134 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2023 | #301 | 1,027 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #357 | 885 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #376 | 828 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #425 | 722 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #443 | 701 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #432 | 732 | #5,770 | 15 |
| 2017 | #455 | 695 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #462 | 688 | — | |
| 2015 | #461 | 690 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #539 | 577 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #538 | 552 | — | |
| 2012 | #527 | 575 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #575 | 506 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #642 | 460 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #694 | 419 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #772 | 380 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #833 | 344 | — | |
| 2006 | #832 | 324 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #940 | 263 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #1,229 | 179 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,195 | 179 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #1,275 | 154 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #1,506 | 124 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,542 | 116 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #1,654 | 100 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #2,756 | 48 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #3,448 | 33 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,966 | 40 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,932 | 40 | — | |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,257 | 24 | — | |
| 1992 | #5,051 | 19 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,659 | 16 | — | |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | — | |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | — | |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 | — | |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 | — | |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 | — | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,347 | 17 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 | — | |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | — | |
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| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | — | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | — | |
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| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
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| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Selah! It came in at #5,860, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1963–1971, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Selah is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Dakota#181 · 1 in 540
- Montana#212 · 1 in 598
- Alabama#231 · 1 in 937
- Michigan#272 · 1 in 1,241
- South Carolina#273 · 1 in 1,148
Best ever in a state: #40 in Wyoming, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | #181 | 6 | 1 in 540 |
| Montana | #212 | 5 | 1 in 598 |
| Alabama | #231 | 21 | 1 in 937 |
| Michigan | #272 | 34 | 1 in 1,241 |
| South Carolina | #273 | 16 | 1 in 1,148 |
| Colorado | #276 | 20 | 1 in 1,170 |
| Arizona | #305 | 23 | 1 in 1,344 |
| Oklahoma | #305 | 14 | 1 in 1,202 |
| Minnesota | #307 | 19 | 1 in 1,288 |
| Virginia | #314 | 27 | 1 in 1,388 |
| Oregon | #342 | 11 | 1 in 1,384 |
| Iowa | #359 | 9 | 1 in 1,433 |
| Wisconsin | #368 | 15 | 1 in 1,552 |
| Pennsylvania | #389 | 29 | 1 in 1,820 |
| Washington | #391 | 18 | 1 in 1,741 |
| Kansas | #406 | 8 | 1 in 1,628 |
| Indiana | #416 | 16 | 1 in 1,914 |
| Maryland | #416 | 13 | 1 in 1,854 |
| Florida | #422 | 41 | 1 in 2,097 |
| North Carolina | #435 | 22 | 1 in 2,064 |
| Ohio | #443 | 25 | 1 in 2,111 |
| Illinois | #463 | 27 | 1 in 2,168 |
| California | #466 | 84 | 1 in 2,445 |
| Tennessee | #483 | 14 | 1 in 2,225 |
| Mississippi | #485 | 6 | 1 in 1,872 |
| Georgia | #526 | 19 | 1 in 2,563 |
| Texas | #553 | 61 | 1 in 2,782 |
| Missouri | #560 | 10 | 1 in 2,720 |
| Arkansas | #574 | 5 | 1 in 2,364 |
| New Jersey | #786 | 9 | 1 in 4,129 |
| Massachusetts | #830 | 5 | 1 in 5,056 |
| Louisiana | #884 | 5 | 1 in 4,258 |
| New York | #1,015 | 15 | 1 in 6,088 |
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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 Selah
- 63 spots since 2024 (#279 → #216)
- 209 spots since 2020 (#425 → #216)
- 245 spots since 2015 (#461 → #216)
- Biggest jump: 289 spots in 2005 (#1,229 → #940)
- Biggest drop: 11 spots in 2013 (#527 → #538)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 2025 at #216 (1,416 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 2005–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,135 girls born in 2025 were named Selah (0.09%)
- 40.7% of all girls named Selah (6,176) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11 | #5,860 (1962) | #6,332 |
| 1970s | 55 | #4,679 (1978) | #7,005 |
| 1980s | 104 | #4,347 (1982) | #6,840 |
| 1990s | 347 | #1,654 (1999) | #4,174 |
| 2000s | 2,482 | #694 (2009) | #1,082 |
| 2010s | 6,176 | #432 (2018) | #507 |
| 2020s | 6,012 | #216 (2025) | #326 |
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.
Selah in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 2,587 of them was named Selah, which outranked 97.6% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 273,820 of them was named Selah, which outranked 31.9% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,744Zorawar8
- #8,744Zubin8
- #8,744Zyree8
- #9,568Selah7
- #9,568Aadhyan7
- #9,568Aadrian7
- #9,568Aamari7
- #10,644Aadithya6
- #10,644Aadiv6
- #10,644Aahir6
Tied with 1,075 names at #9,568; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.