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Salena

#10,759 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Salena has been given to 5,163 babies in the U.S. since 1889. In 2025 it ranked #10,759 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 197 recorded.

Babies named Salena, 2025

1 in 368,000

Salena over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Salena: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Salena means

Salena is a given name.

The naming story behind Salena

Wikidata records Salena as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q28232545, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,163 girls were recorded with the name Salena between 1889 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 197 in 1995; its best national rank was #799 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,816 in 2020 to #10,759 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,476 in 2015 to #10,759 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Salena?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,759
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Salena sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Salena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Salenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Salena was born before 1990 — so the typical Salena is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,939
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 27.4% of all recorded uses (1,413).

Is Salena rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,869
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,943
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,283
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.28×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.6%
Peak was 1995 (197)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#799
1977

Spellings of Salena

Salena is not the most common spelling — Lena is, with 14.7% against Salena's 0.52%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Salena is used

Across 1910–2025, Salena was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 65,105 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 33,333
  3. 3Michigan1 in 33,333
  4. 4Arizona1 in 50,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 50,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 50,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Salena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Salena around the world

Where Salena ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • France
    1993–2021
    #6,522
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1993–2018
    #2,616
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1966–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Salena in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Salena. Linked forms have their own page here.

Selena

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Salena by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,759
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,943
Best rank ever
#799
1977
Peak year
1995
197 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,163
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Salena

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Salena

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Salena, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Salena

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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