Selman

Boys' name

Form of Salman

Selman has been given to 76 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 2017, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Selman, 2024

1 in 669,000

Selman over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Selman: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Salman

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Selman means

Selman is a form of Salman.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Selman is used in Turkish and Albanian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Selman → Salman. The family’s meaning is “safe”, recorded in the naming reference for Salman.

Origin, language, and formation

Selman is used in Albanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Salman.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 76 boys were recorded with the name Selman between 1914 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2017; its best national rank was #3,682 in 1914.

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.

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How common is Selman?

Selman had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 345,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Selman sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Selman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Selmans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Selman was born before 2009 — so the typical Selman is around 16 today.

Median birth year: 2009; About 16 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 32.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 67.1%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 56; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 32.9% of all recorded uses (25).

Is Selman 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2017 (7)
Years since peak: 8; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 17.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,682; 1914

Spellings of Selman

Selman is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 60.7% against Selman's 0.01%.

Sean60.7%423,637
Herman19.5%135,977
Sherman5.6%39,190
Elian2.2%15,268
Delmar2.0%14,242
Kellan1.5%10,752
German1.5%10,290
Semaj1.1%7,421

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.

Selman around the world

Where Selman 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
1986–2025
#2,552
in 2025
Canada
2024–2024
#3,231
in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Selman by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,682; 1914
Peak year: 2017; 7 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 76
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Selman

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

Selasi Sriman Selena Seleem Selassie Selah Teoman Soliman Numan Sukhman Gurman Firman Beauman Noman Wilman Rhoman Selso Jarman Kerman Nouman Caiman Freman Shaman Karman

Sibling names for Selman

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

For a sister

Raylee Aubrielle Harleigh Kinslee Aminah Adelia Emmeline Kynlee

For a brother

Brecken Linus Arvin Titan Ramsey Kalvin Ishmael Nixon

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