Salina
Salina was given to 35 girls in 2025, #4,153 among girls’ names; 7,239 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,660 Americans named Salina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 29 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Salina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Salina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Salina is “a female given name.”
Uncertain, possibly a variant of, or a coinage inspired by, Selina. The place name seems an unlikely source.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Salina?
#4,153 among girls’ names, 2025
Salina fell from #3,751 in 2015 to #4,153 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.0 to 21.8 per million.
385 babies in 1977, the peak
Salina peaked in 1977, when 385 girls were given it, #495 among girls’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,153 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,757 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,970 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,949 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,308 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,524 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,774 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,061 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,057 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,226 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (123)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #3,751 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,037 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,833 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,973 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,756 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,738 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,881 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,916 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,988 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 80 | #2,370 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,748 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,471 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 82 | #2,138 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 88 | #1,999 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 93 | #1,879 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 98 | #1,784 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 109 | #1,556 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 117 | #1,465 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 131 | #1,322 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 142 | #1,234 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 233 | #838 | 0.13 |
| 1994 | 262 | #782 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 252 | #800 | 0.14 |
| 1992 | 205 | #945 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 198 | #957 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 178 | #1,021 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 194 | #925 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 180 | #939 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 151 | #1,032 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 160 | #985 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 156 | #985 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 162 | #921 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 168 | #901 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 192 | #821 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 186 | #843 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 186 | #842 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 169 | #891 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 202 | #766 | 0.13 |
| 1977 | 385 | #495 | 0.25 |
| 1976 | 161 | #851 | 0.11 |
| 1975 | 90 | #1,255 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 103 | #1,130 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 92 | #1,184 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 81 | #1,275 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 98 | #1,175 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 39 | #2,111 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 47 | #1,801 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,672 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 46 | #1,696 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,340 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 33 | #2,056 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,101 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,476 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,982 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,990 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,288 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,399 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,440 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,486 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,838 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,121 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,988 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,526 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,907 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,673 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,661 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,179 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,809 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,412 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,961 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,426 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,748 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,149 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,444 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,642 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,637 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,719 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,236 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,326 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,948 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,321 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,956 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,966 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,554 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,784 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,224 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,849 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,499 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,387 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,780 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,116 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,163 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,612 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,380 | 0.01 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,491 | 0.03 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,539 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,186 | 0.02 |
| 1903 | 5 | #2,041 | 0.02 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,643 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,543 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,563 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,668 | 0.02 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,762 | 0.02 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,557 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,776 | 0.02 |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,331 | 0.03 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,634 | 0.02 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,082 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,319 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,117 | 0.04 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,083 | 0.04 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,154 | 0.04 |
| 1882 | 6 | #887 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Salina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Salina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 123 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Salina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Salina, and how old are they?
6,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 7,239 Americans ever recorded as Salina. The median Salina alive today is 37 years old; half are between 29 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 6,533 people named Salina (6,517 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,553 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 13 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 245 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,700 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,940 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,260 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 506 |
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 Salina born?
The states with the most babies named Salina are California, Texas and New York, with 61% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,742 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Texas | 411 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 342 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 268 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 200 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 187 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 181 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 177 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Washington | 116 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 92 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Salina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Salina is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Salina 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, Salina is the most given (53% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 50 babies (70%), again the 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 Salina
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 Salina and names like it
- Compare Salina and SalenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sSalina peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Salina since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Salina.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Salina alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.