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Salina

#4,153 in 2025Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Salina has been given to 7,239 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #4,153 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 385 recorded.

Babies named Salina, 2025

1 in 94,700

Salina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Salina: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Salina means

Salina is a modern given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Uncertain, possibly a variant of, or a coinage inspired by, Selina. The place name seems an unlikely source.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Salina (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Salina is used in English.

Salina is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,239 girls were recorded with the name Salina between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 385 in 1977; its best national rank was #495 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,524 in 2020 to #4,153 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,751 in 2015 to #4,153 in 2025.

How common is Salina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 45,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,153
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Salina 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 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Salina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Salinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Salina was born before 1988 — so the typical Salina is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
25.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,879
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 25.2% of all recorded uses (1,827).

Is Salina 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
+604
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+371
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−402
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.85×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.1%
Peak was 1977 (385)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#495
1977

Spellings of Salina

Salina is not the most common spelling — Sabrina is, with 12.0% against Salina's 0.61%.

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 Salina is used

Across 1910–2025, Salina was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 32,666 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 9,091
  2. 2California1 in 9,091
  3. 3Washington1 in 20,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in 25,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 25,000
  6. 6New Mexico1 in 25,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 33,333
  8. 8New York1 in 33,333

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. Salina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Salina around the world

Where Salina 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
    1996–2024
    #4,193
    in 2024
  • France
    1967–2025
    #7,469
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1959–2012
    #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.

Notable people named Salina

People whose public names include Salina, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Salina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,153
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 371
Best rank ever
#495
1977
Peak year
1977
385 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,239
Count in 2025
35

Names similar to Salina

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

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Names with a curve like Salina

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

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Sibling names for Salina

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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