Selenia
Selenia was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,660 among girls’ names; 507 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Selenia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Selenia mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Selenia is “a female given name from Ancient Greek, masculine equivalent Selenio”
From Selene, from Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Selenia?
#14,660 among girls’ names, 2025
Selenia fell from #9,401 in 2015 to #14,660 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 3.7 per million.
29 babies in 1998, the peak
Selenia peaked in 1998, when 29 girls were given it, #3,999 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,660 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,991 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,241 | 4.4 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,283 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,126 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,352 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,727 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #18,032 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,995 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,401 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #10,821 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,823 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,582 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,704 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,305 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,398 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,488 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,765 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,233 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,733 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,569 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,359 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,455 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,032 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,632 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,999 | 16.4 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,893 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,153 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,197 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,661 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,545 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,661 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,051 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,754 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,057 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,584 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,989 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,593 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,099 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,470 | 7.7 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,202 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,849 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,086 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,931 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,345 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,912 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,474 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,257 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,678 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,530 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,740 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,446 | 6.0 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,467 | 4.1 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,431 | 3.5 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,381 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,042 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Selenia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Selenia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Selenia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Selenia, and how old are they?
An estimated 492 Americans named Selenia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 18 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 627 people named Selenia (627 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 469 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 89,982 babies since 1880, Selenia is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 1,821 babies (<1%), again the fourth 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 Selenia
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 Selenia and names like it
- Compare Selenia and SelenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSelenia peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Selenia since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Selenia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Selenia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Selenia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.