Selin
- #3,903 for girls in 2025, 37 births
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 44 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,042since 1981
Selin over time
Rank among girls' names. Selin 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 | #3,903 | 37 |
| 2024 | #4,560 | 30 |
| 2023 | #4,999 | 26 |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 |
| 2019 | #5,041 | 26 |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 |
| 2017 | #3,919 | 38 |
| 2016 | #4,423 | 32 |
| 2015 | #4,295 | 33 |
| 2014 | #5,625 | 23 |
| 2013 | #4,336 | 33 |
| 2012 | #4,296 | 34 |
| 2011 | #5,358 | 25 |
| 2010 | #4,494 | 32 |
| 2009 | #4,677 | 31 |
| 2008 | #4,550 | 33 |
| 2007 | #4,380 | 34 |
| 2006 | #3,505 | 45 |
| 2005 | #3,876 | 37 |
| 2004 | #3,391 | 44 |
| 2003 | #3,655 | 38 |
| 2002 | #3,889 | 33 |
| 2001 | #3,631 | 36 |
| 2000 | #3,808 | 33 |
| 1999 | #2,991 | 44 |
| 1998 | #3,353 | 36 |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 |
| 1995 | #5,677 | 16 |
| 1994 | #5,249 | 18 |
| 1993 | #5,206 | 18 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
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| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 |
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| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Selin! It came in at #10,411, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1984, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Selin is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,654 · 1 in 11,190
- California#2,767 · 1 in 26,954
Best ever in a state: #793 in Virginia, 1999.
Show every state
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| New York | #1,654 | 7 | 1 in 11,190 |
| California | #2,767 | 6 | 1 in 26,954 |
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See more about Selin
- 657 spots since 2024 (#4,560 → #3,903)
- 2,180 spots since 2020 (#6,083 → #3,903)
- 392 spots since 2015 (#4,295 → #3,903)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 1999 at #2,991 (44 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 21 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 40,314 girls born in 1999 were named Selin (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 43,440 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.9% of all girls named Selin (364) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1980s | 39 | #7,469 (1982) | #9,408 |
| 1990s | 189 | #2,991 (1999) | #6,290 |
| 2000s | 364 | #3,391 (2004) | #3,936 |
| 2010s | 302 | #3,919 (2017) | #4,679 |
| 2020s | 148 | #3,903 (2025) | #5,411 |
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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