Selena

Where Selena comes from

Either a variant of Selina, from Latin Caelīna (“heavenly”, from caelum (“sky, heaven”)), or from Selene, the Ancient Greek goddess of the moon.
— Wiktionary's entry for Selena
  • Ancient Greek
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1904
    Selena Royle born
    American actress
  3. 1992
    Selena Gomez born
    American singer and actress
  4. 1995
    Peak, #91
    3,825 babies named Selena — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2000
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #193.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Namesakes
  • Selena Gomez · American singer and actress, born 1992
  • Selena Royle · American actress, 1904–1983
  • Selena Piek · badminton player, born 1991
  • Selena Silver · Australian pornographic actress, born 1979
  • Selena Steele · American pornographic actress and erotic dancer, born 1961

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.