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
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #547 among girls — 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 — more than any year before or since.
  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.