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Selinda

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Selinda has been given to 452 babies in the U.S. since 1946. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1961, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Selinda, 2008

1 in 786,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Selinda: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Selinda means

Selinda is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Selinda is used in Faroese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 452 girls were recorded with the name Selinda between 1946 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1961; its best national rank was #3,014 in 1962.

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 Selinda?

Selinda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 786,000
5 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 378,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
544,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Selinda 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 2008 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 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Selinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Selindas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Selinda was born before 1968 — so the typical Selinda is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
29.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
426
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (131).

Is Selinda 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1961 (18)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,014
1962

Spellings of Selinda

Selinda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 78.0% against Selinda's 0.02%.

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 Selinda is used

Across 1910–2025, Selinda was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,829,369 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Selinda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Selinda around the world

Where Selinda 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.

  • South Australia
    1959–1959
    #625
    in 1959

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Selinda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,014
1962
Peak year
1961
18 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
452
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Selinda

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

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Sibling names for Selinda

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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