Selina

given name · English · Latin script

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

Selina is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh. It appears chiefly in English and Bangla, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Of uncertain origin. It is first found in the 17th century, and it may be an altered form of Selena (Greek Seléné), the name of a goddess of the moon, or of Celina (Latin Caelina), a derivative of Cel.

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

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Selena in US United States, CA Canada, EC Ecuador and 2 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●

Of uncertain origin. It is first found in the 17th century, and it may be an altered form of Selena (Greek Seléné), the name of a goddess of the moon, or of Celina (Latin Caelina), a derivative of Celia. The name suddenly became more popular in Britain in the 1980s, partly perhaps due to the television personality Selina Scott.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Selina 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●

  • English247K39%
  • Bangla126K20%
  • German63K10%
  • Portuguese48K8%
  • Swahili32K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English246,76139%
Bangla125,93320%
German62,76210%
Portuguese48,0628%
Swahili32,4735%

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◐

Selina is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bangla given name140K records spelled Selina17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Bangla, Hindi, Urdu

    Also written সেলিনা, Shelina, Selinā, সেলি্না, সেলিনা্

  • a separate given name8.0K records spelled Selina4 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Šelina, Sélina, Selinā

  • French given name6.1K records spelled Selina10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Tanzania

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Sélina, Sëlïnä, Selîna, Sèlina, Sèlîñã

  • Russian surname3.2K records spelled Selina22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Селина, Селіна, Целина, Celina, Сёлина

  • Croatian given name742 records spelled Selina9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Bulgaria, United Kingdom

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Селина

46 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●

Selina 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 Swedish, Selina kan vara en engelsk form av grekiskans Selḗnē, namn på mångudinnan, eller en skrivvariant av Celina (→ Celine). Under 1800-talet förekom stavningen Selina i Sverige, ibland även som en variant av Zerlina.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In German, weibl. Vom., Variante von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • English: of uncertain origin. The name first occurs in the 17th century, and it may be an altered form of Selena (Greek Sel n ), the name of a goddess of the moon, or of Celina (Latin Cael na ), a derivative of CELIA . The name suddenly became more popular in Britain in the 1980s, partly perhaps because of the familiarity of the television newsreader Selina Scott.

    as a word

  • In Latvian, pilsēta ASV ("Celina"), Ohaio štatā, 10400 iedzīvotāju (2014. g.)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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●

0200400600800190019502000704 · 1995

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Selina in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188010
18819
188314
188411
188511
18869
188715
188813
188918
189024
189119
189219
189312
189411
189526
189617
189722
189822
189913
190027
190117
190213
190320
190416
190519
190615
190719
190813
190914
191019
191119
191227
191320
191417
191527
191636
191732
191847
191937
192032
192122
192232
192337
192434
192528
192633
192720
192825
192919
193024
193112
193215
193318
193415
193518
193614
193714
193812
193919
194012
194113
19429
194323
194419
194527
194613
194722
194825
194928
195027
195154
195236
195336
195461
195553
195658
195768
1958103
1959148
1960167
1961205
1962246
1963246
1964195
1965244
1966269
1967232
1968198
1969146
1970150
1971222
1972198
1973220
1974198
1975154
1976201
1977399
1978288
1979242
1980233
1981294
1982287
1983255
1984251
1985264
1986265
1987248
1988231
1989331
1990270
1991311
1992363
1993496
1994614
1995704
1996376
1997357
1998336
1999348
2000279
2001262
2002262
2003238
2004240
2005295
2006295
2007291
2008277
2009253
2010219
2011224
2012242
2013213
2014249
2015222
2016218
2017214
2018229
2019205
2020158
2021176
2022163
2023168
2024176
2025176

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 145 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●

17001800190020002100Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, b. 1707Selina Hossain, b. 1947Selina Cadell, b. 1953Selina Giles, b. 1972Selina Jen, b. 1981Selina Gasparin, b. 1984Selina Jörg, b. 1988Selina Lo, b. 1991Selina Shirin Müller, b. 1993Selina Freitag, b. 2001

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 101 sources across 53 countries.

Official registers attesting Selina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202016K#1,812
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20248.2K#101
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—3.8K#3,944
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—2.9K#871
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20222.7K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.7K#4,148
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—2.1K#1,331
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—2K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.9K#1,112
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.1K#1,574
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—1K#385
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025548—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 1,104 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Selina?
We estimate roughly 125 thousand people bear Selina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Selina have the most bearers?
Selina is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled selina.
How common is Selina compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Selina is the 288th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
Is Selina a male or female name?
Selina 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 Selina mean?
Recorded meaning: Of uncertain origin. It is first found in the 17th century, and it may be an altered form of Selena (Greek Seléné), the name of a goddess of the moon, or of Celina (Latin Caelina), a derivative of Cel…
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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, “Selina” — the 288th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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