Seleni
Seleni was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 145 Americans have been recorded with it between 1993 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Seleni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Seleni?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,291, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 2016, the peak
Seleni peaked in 2016, when 28 girls were given it, #4,969 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #17,291 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,200 | 6.2 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,256 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,972 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,351 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,441 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,163 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,969 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,966 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,489 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 5 | #16,424 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,351 | 4.6 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,097 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,371 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Seleni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Seleni has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Seleni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Seleni, and how old are they?
An estimated 144 Americans named Seleni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 7 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 156 people named Seleni (152 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 116 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 90,477 babies since 1880, Seleni is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,876 babies recorded by SSA was a Seleni (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Seleni
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 Seleni and names like it
- Compare Seleni and SelenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSeleni peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Seleni since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Seleni.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Seleni alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.