Selena

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Selena is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A female given name from Ancient Greek.

rarermore common
  • ATAustria1 in 570◐
  • DKDenmark1 in 2.2K
  • BDBangladesh1 in 2.6K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈125K ●

across 12 countries

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
392 ●

373K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.2K ◐

Poland

Spellings & scripts●

SelinaLatin · English●247K records
ᲡელენაGeorgian · Georgian●77 records
เซลิน่าThai · Thai●11 records
СелинаCyrillic · Tajik●2 records
ΣελίναGreek · Greek●1 records
셀리나Hangul · Korean●1 records
ՍելինաArmenian · Armenian●0 records

Locally spelled Selina in BD Bangladesh, BR Brazil, DE Germany and 19 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

A female given name from Ancient Greek.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Selena is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#288111,2602 rec.——Selina3
US United States#97043,239252K rec.1 in 7.7K43KSelena392
BR Brazil—40,881△522 rec.1 in 5.2K48KSelina51
DE Germany#51531,15728K rec.——Selina177
AT Austria#12229,0172K rec.—8.2KSelina89
GB United Kingdom#73722,26818K rec.—9Selina171
AU Australia#67417,93115K rec.—9Selina165
PL Poland—17,524△39 rec.1 in 2.2K18K—1
CA Canada#64914,0646.5K rec.—8Selena143
FR France—7,275△2 rec.1 in 9.3K7.3K—2
ZA South Africa#5986,2276.5K rec.——Selina38
MX Mexico—5,6183K rec.—234Selina86

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English201K40%
  • Spanish146K29%
  • French41K8%
  • Portuguese33K7%
  • 11K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English200,78840%
Spanish146,44829%
French40,5648%
Portuguese33,3617%
11,0612%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Selena is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name202K records spelled Selena24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, United States, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Sëlënä, Seleña, Selenä, Séléna, Śĕĺĕńá

  • French given name44K records spelled Selena20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Séléna, Sélèna, Sélena, Seléna, Sęlėñä

  • a separate given name12K records spelled Selena3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Seléna, Séléna

  • Polish given name6.8K records spelled Selena49 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Russia, United States, Croatia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Croatian

    Also written Селена, Selene, Селене, Sellena, Sélènà

  • Finnish given name2.6K records spelled Selena4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Slovenia, Hungary

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Séléna

  • Indonesian given name2.0K records spelled Selena2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, Peru, Spain

    Also written Sélena

  • Turkish given name1.7K records spelled Selena4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Netherlands, Azerbaijan

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

    Also written Селена

60 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Selena is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Tejano entertainer

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Greek: moon

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In Serbo-Croatian, Selene (Greek goddess)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In se, selenium

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In umb, slippery

    as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01K2K3K4K1900195020003.8K · 1995

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Selena in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
18805
18817
18825
18836
188411
188515
188610
188714
188818
188911
189014
189117
189211
189316
189413
189511
189613
189716
189821
189911
190020
190117
190217
190323
190417
190515
190616
190714
190819
190921
191021
191123
191228
191327
191437
191540
191634
191735
191832
191941
192046
192144
192243
192344
192437
192543
192645
192736
192840
192946
193044
193125
193231
193338
193425
193529
193625
193735
193835
193940
194022
194127
194241
194342
194464
194550
194641
194750
194857
194961
195058
195169
195290
195367
195485
195559
195653
195758
1958212
1959213
1960199
1961257
1962241
1963206
1964226
1965272
1966298
1967294
1968271
1969271
1970297
1971435
1972357
1973589
1974446
1975344
1976464
1977791
1978598
1979522
1980452
1981453
1982391
1983367
1984368
1985310
1986282
1987246
1988212
1989281
1990263
1991313
1992375
1993663
1994918
19953,825
19962,291
19971,998
19982,279
19992,118
20001,645
20011,485
20021,288
20031,179
20041,242
20051,379
20061,164
20071,059
2008957
20091,019
2010984
2011986
20121,053
2013945
2014960
20151,016
20161,126
20171,306
20181,316
20191,336
20201,243
20211,453
20221,280
20231,307
20241,294
20251,170

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Selena Royle, b. 1904Selena Steele, b. 1961Selena Pérez, b. 1971Selena Tan, b. 1971Selena Silver, b. 1979Selena Lee, b. 1981Selena Rose, b. 1990Selena Gomez, b. 1992Séléna Janicijevic, b. 2002

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 89 sources across 54 countries.

Official registers attesting Selena
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202043K#993
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20246.2K#284
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20244.7K#369
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20223.5K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—3.5K#3,475
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.6K#1,451
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.4K#768
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20201.3K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.2K#8,038
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251.2K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—752#548
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026752#548

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 865 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Selena?
We estimate roughly 125 thousand people bear Selena (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Selena have the most bearers?
Selena is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled selina.
How common is Selena compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Selena is the 288th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
Is Selena a male or female name?
Selena is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Selena mean?
Recorded meaning: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Selena” — the 288th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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