Selina

Where Selina comes from

First recorded in England in the 17th century, possibly from Latin Caelīna (“heavenly”), or a variant of Selene, the Ancient Greek goddess of the moon.
— Wiktionary's entry for Selina
  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Selina through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #547 among girls, with 10 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1981
    Selina Jen born
    Taiwanese singer, actress and television host
  3. 1984
    Selina Gasparin born
    Swiss biathlete
  4. 1995
    Peak, #371
    704 babies named Selina, the most in any year.
  5. 1998
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #680.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Selina Gasparin · Swiss biathlete, born 1984
  • Selina Jen · Taiwanese singer, actress and television host, born 1981
  • Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon · British countess, 1707–1791
  • Selina Freitag · German ski jumper, born 2001
  • Selina Jörg · German snowboarder, born 1988

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.