Seléna
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Seléna is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Selene, from Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē).
- USUnited States1 in 7.7K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 9.3K
- CACanada≈1 in 16K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Seléna itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 445 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈47,000 named Selina, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Selina in BR Brazil, AT Austria, NO Norway and 3 more and Selena in US United States, EC Ecuador.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Selene, from Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē).
Cited for this meaning 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Seléna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #436 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Selina | 18 |
| US United States | #956 | 43,320 | 1 in 7.7K | 43K | Selena | 445 |
| BR Brazil | — | 40,881as Celina | 1 in 5.2K | 48K | Selina | 47 |
| PL Poland | — | 17,524as Celina | 1 in 2.2K | 18K | — | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | #616 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Selina | 40 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 4,725 | 1 in 3.6K | 4.7K | Selena | 13 |
| AT Austria | #323 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 8.2K | Selina | 90 |
| DK Denmark | — | 2,638as Celina | 1 in 2.2K | 2.6K | Selina | 56 |
| NO Norway | — | 2,053as Celina | 1 in 2.7K | 7.2K | Selina | 22 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INEC — civil registry names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Seléna mean, and where does it come from?
- From Selene, from Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Seléna a male or female name?
- Seléna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Seléna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Selina in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Seléna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Seléna is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 3.6 thousand people — even though Tanzania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Seléna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 43,320 people named Seléna in 2020, about 1 in 7.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Seléna compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Seléna is the 436th most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sel%C3%A9naThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Seléna” — the 436th most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.