Given name & surname
Selenia
Selenia is a feminine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Italian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1959. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Selenia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 507
- 0 boys · 507 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 29 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,664 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −33%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,664 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 29 in 1998. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 627 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Selenia’s family of names
In Italian usage, Selenia has a conventional equivalent in the English form Selene.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Selenia
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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