Salena
Salena was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,759 among girls’ names; 5,163 Americans have been recorded with it since 1889 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,780 Americans named Salena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 27 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Salena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Salena?
#10,759 among girls’ names, 2025
Salena fell from #4,476 in 2015 to #10,759 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.9 to 5.6 per million.
197 babies in 1995, the peak
Salena peaked in 1995, when 197 girls were given it, #956 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,759 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,890 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,980 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,233 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,632 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,816 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,584 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,585 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,134 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,105 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,476 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,144 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,140 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,352 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,543 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,244 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,960 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,152 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 58 | #3,044 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 55 | #3,081 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 69 | #2,517 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 80 | #2,224 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 87 | #2,058 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 73 | #2,257 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 102 | #1,758 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 109 | #1,627 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 129 | #1,374 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 137 | #1,302 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 146 | #1,229 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 171 | #1,083 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 197 | #956 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 145 | #1,212 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 154 | #1,153 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 119 | #1,388 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 103 | #1,507 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 112 | #1,416 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 123 | #1,283 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 108 | #1,330 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 112 | #1,265 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 99 | #1,338 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 80 | #1,532 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 88 | #1,359 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 78 | #1,481 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 81 | #1,487 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 94 | #1,337 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 80 | #1,500 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 112 | #1,182 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 121 | #1,086 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 188 | #799 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 97 | #1,179 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 68 | #1,514 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 80 | #1,332 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 84 | #1,252 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 60 | #1,558 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 67 | #1,512 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 53 | #1,733 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 47 | #1,800 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 34 | #2,082 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 45 | #1,723 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,339 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 36 | #1,946 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,653 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,916 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,910 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 32 | #2,106 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,497 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,740 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,649 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,124 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,837 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,536 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,460 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,373 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,746 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,746 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,910 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,150 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,570 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,197 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,134 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,779 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,970 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,176 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,820 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,096 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,764 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,175 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,508 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,374 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,346 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,312 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,955 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,384 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,974 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,734 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,214 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,212 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,098 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,602 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,126 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,596 | 0.01 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,836 | 0.02 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,567 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,412 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,803 | 0.02 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,761 | 0.02 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,778 | 0.02 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,159 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,456 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Salena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Salena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 109 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Salena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Salena, and how old are they?
4,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 5,163 Americans ever recorded as Salena. The median Salena alive today is 35 years old; half are between 27 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 4,177 people named Salena (4,170 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,760 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 18 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 242 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,120 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,820 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 294 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Salena born?
The states with the most babies named Salena are California, Michigan and Texas, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 550 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 204 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 187 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 172 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 170 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 162 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 122 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 104 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 68 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 36 | not ranked | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Salena with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 13,761 babies since 1880, Salena is the second most given (38% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 50 babies (18%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Salena
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Salena and names like it
- Compare Salena and SalinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSalena peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Salena since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Salena.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Salena alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.