Selené
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
Selené is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē).
- UYUruguay1 in 5.1K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 6.9K
- ITItaly≈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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 249 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
9,318 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Selene in AR Argentina, PE Peru, US United States and 5 more.
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 Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē).
Cited for this meaning 4
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Selené 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 9,318 | 1 in 36K | 9.3K | Selene | 249 |
| AR Argentina | #586 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 277 | Selene | 73 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 177 | Selene | 79 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,585 | 1 in 19K | 2.6K | Selene | 105 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,087 | 1 in 101K | 2.1K | Selene | 77 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Selene | 50 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,026 | 1 in 16K | 1K | Selene | 24 |
| UY Uruguay | #286 | 669 | 1 in 5.1K | 669 | Selene | 29 |
9,318 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INEC — civil registry names. 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 Selené mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē). Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Selené a male or female name?
- Selené 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 Selené have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.3 thousand people named Selené, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled selene.
- Where is Selené most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Selené is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 5.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Selené?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,318 people named Selené in 2020, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Selené compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Selené is the 286th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Selené?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/selen%C3%A9The 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, “Selené” — the 286th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.