Selin
Selin was given to 37 girls in 2025, #3,962 among girls’ names; 1,042 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Selin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Selin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Selin mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Selin is “a female given name”
Possibly from Turkmen selin, a perennial large grass (Stipagrostis) growing in the desert.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Selin?
#3,962 among girls’ names, 2025
Selin rose from #4,392 in 2015 to #3,962 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 18.5 to 23.0 per million.
45 babies in 2006, the peak
Selin peaked in 2006, when 45 girls were given it, #3,552 among girls’ names. The 37 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,962 | 23.0 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,646 | 18.5 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,101 | 16.2 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,425 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,918 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,285 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,142 | 15.5 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,123 | 15.3 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,983 | 22.0 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,509 | 18.1 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,392 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,764 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,410 | 18.8 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,371 | 19.3 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,519 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,585 | 18.0 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,789 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,629 | 17.5 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,457 | 17.7 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,552 | 23.7 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,929 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,429 | 24.0 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,714 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,960 | 18.4 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,690 | 20.0 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,866 | 18.2 |
| 1999 | 44 | #3,035 | 24.8 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,409 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,178 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,673 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,888 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,405 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,384 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,276 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,053 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,140 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,604 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,142 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,826 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,078 | 4.1 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,060 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,772 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Selin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Selin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Selin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Selin, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,042 Americans ever recorded as Selin. The median Selin alive today is 19 years old; half are between 10 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,253 people named Selin (1,179 women and girls, 74 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 890 born in the U.S. The Census count is 41% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Selin rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 125 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 549 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 357 |
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 Selin born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 7 | #1,801 | 2.0× |
| California | 6 | #3,051 | 0.8× |
Where Selin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Selin is most over-represented in New York: since 1981 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 Selin 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,358 babies since 1880, Selin is the most given (77% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 59 babies (63%), 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 Selin
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 Selin and names like it
- Compare Selin and SelenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSelin peaked in 2006.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Selin since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Selin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Selin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Selin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.