Selim
#2,604 for boys in 2025, 50 births
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 78 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,023since 1971
Selim over time
Rank among boys' names. Selim has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,604 | 50 |
| 2024 | #2,236 | 64 |
| 2023 | #2,480 | 54 |
| 2022 | #2,379 | 59 |
| 2021 | #2,410 | 56 |
| 2020 | #2,546 | 50 |
| 2019 | #1,974 | 74 |
| 2018 | #1,959 | 75 |
| 2017 | #1,871 | 78 |
| 2016 | #2,184 | 62 |
| 2015 | #2,328 | 56 |
| 2014 | #2,256 | 59 |
| 2013 | #3,497 | 30 |
| 2012 | #3,894 | 26 |
| 2011 | #3,885 | 26 |
| 2010 | #5,047 | 18 |
| 2009 | #5,800 | 15 |
| 2008 | #5,487 | 16 |
| 2007 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #6,094 | 13 |
| 2005 | #5,875 | 13 |
| 2004 | #6,520 | 11 |
| 2003 | #4,815 | 16 |
| 2002 | #6,522 | 10 |
| 2001 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | #5,588 | 12 |
| 1999 | #6,530 | 9 |
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| 1997 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #7,136 | 7 |
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| 1992 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #8,236 | 5 |
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| 1987 | #6,951 | 5 |
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| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
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| 1982 | #5,003 | 7 |
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| 1978 | #4,554 | 7 |
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| 1971 | #4,907 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Selim! It came in at #4,907, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1977, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Selim is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#846 · 1 in 5,405
- New Jersey#888 · 1 in 6,655
- Florida#1,475 · 1 in 13,662
- California#1,854 · 1 in 22,533
Best ever in a state: #568 in New Jersey, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #846 | 16 | 1 in 5,405 |
| New Jersey | #888 | 6 | 1 in 6,655 |
| Florida | #1,475 | 7 | 1 in 13,662 |
| California | #1,854 | 8 | 1 in 22,533 |
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See more about Selim
- 368 spots since 2024 (#2,236 → #2,604)
- 58 spots since 2020 (#2,546 → #2,604)
- 276 spots since 2015 (#2,328 → #2,604)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2017 at #1,871 (78 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 23,730 boys born in 2017 were named Selim (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,162 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 49.3% of all boys named Selim (504) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 12 | #4,554 (1978) | #4,731 |
| 1980s | 17 | #5,003 (1982) | #6,159 |
| 1990s | 33 | #6,530 (1999) | #7,524 |
| 2000s | 124 | #4,815 (2003) | #6,181 |
| 2010s | 504 | #1,871 (2017) | #2,890 |
| 2020s | 333 | #2,236 (2024) | #2,443 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Selim in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 26,920 of them was named Selim, which outranked 84.4% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,210Whitaker65
- #2,210Xyaire65
- #2,210Zaine65
- #2,236Selim64
- #2,236Amaris64
- #2,236Andrei64
- #2,236Angad64
- #2,261Amirion63
- #2,261Asaad63
- #2,261Austyn63
Tied with 24 names at #2,236; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.