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Selenia

#14,660 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly moon, month, through Σελήνη

Selenia has been given to 507 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #14,660 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Selenia, 2025

1 in 553,000

Selenia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Selenia: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly moon, month, through Σελήνη

Ancient Greek

What Selenia means

Selenia belongs to the name family reached through Selenia → Σελήνη. Its meaning is “moon, month”.

Origin, language, and formation

Selenia is used in Italian. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Selenia comes through Ancient Greek Σελήνη.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Selenio and Σελήνη.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 507 girls were recorded with the name Selenia between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 1998; its best national rank was #3,999 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #17,126 in 2020 to #14,660 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,401 in 2015 to #14,660 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Selenia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,660
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Selenia 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Selenia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Selenias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Selenia was born before 1995 — so the typical Selenia is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
26.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
507
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 26.2% of all recorded uses (133).

Is Selenia 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
+331
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,466
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,259
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.7%
Peak was 1998 (29)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,999
1998

Spellings of Selenia

Selenia is not the most common spelling — Elena is, with 28.8% against Selenia's 0.14%.

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 Selenia is used

Across 1910–2025, Selenia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 574,649 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

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

Selenia around the world

Where Selenia 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.

  • France
    2005–2025
    #4,786
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1999–2006
    #782
    in 2006

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Selenia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,660
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,466
Best rank ever
#3,999
1998
Peak year
1998
29 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
507
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Selenia

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

SelesteSelineTitaniaSelindaBetaniaNataniaMalaniaSeleenKseniaDanniaSeleenaNathaniaIdaniaSelinIvaniaHanniaYaseniaAlaniaAdoniaKenniaLataniaYezeniaLevoniaSelen

Sibling names for Selenia

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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